In general, if any pike -x foo works in a standard "./configure && make && make install" installation of pike, but not in the debian/redhat/gentoo/whatever package, then it's a bug in the debian/redhat/gentoo/whatever packaging (which of course might also indicate a problem in pike itself).

Talking about pike -x, two feature requests:

There should be some way to get pike to list available "tools", and that way should be listed by either pike --help or pike -x (it seems pike --help doesn't mention -x at all. I'm using Pike v7.4 release 20 when testing this).

For example, instead of

$ pike -x Pike: -x specified without tool name.

I'd like to see

$ pike -x Pike: You must provide the name of a tool. Available tools:

module Build a standalone pike module. pv Image viewer bench Pike benchmark

It would be nice to have the testsuite exersize all supported tools, and have pike -x testsuite run the testsuite.

Then pike -x testsuite on an installed system is an easy way to test if the installation workd properly. Maintainers for various pike packaging could be encouraged to use pike -x testsuite to test their packages after installation.

Providing a testsuite is a precise way of saying that an appearantly obscure feature like pike -x module is actually both supported and expected to work.

/ Niels Möller (vässar rödpennan)

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2004-01-26 21:51: Subject: Re: Pike @ Debian

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:35:08PM +0100, Per Hedbor () @ Pike (-) developers forum scribbled:

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Well, debian is way less flexible. And you seem to be intentionally

The difference is that it's pike one installs in Debian and not Debian in Pike.

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minsunderstandning things in texts we write.

yep, as always. You should have gotten used to that.

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Pike modules are internal to the pike build process.

How is that relevant to the discussion? Show me a single place where the pexts, php4 or caudium C Pike modules need the Pike interpreter to compile and link.

marek

/ Brevbäraren