Re: flexfax: HylaFAX and RPM's

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 26 May 1998, Matthias Apitz wrote:

>     I'm not sure which HylaFAX RPM's had it correctly set: the default
>     RedHat Linux for ghostscript fonts, etc., was not included in the
>     original HylaFAX configuration script. It therefore needed tweaking to
>     compile, either a symbolic link added or a modified config.site or
>     modified "configure" script.
> 
> The correct way is to create a right ./config.site file and run
> a clean ./configure for the target system and ...

I agree. Unfortunately, the default configure script did not find the
location of the ghostscript fonts or AFM under Linux. I wrote
a patch for this in my http://cirl.meei.harvard.edu/hylafax/patches/
directory. Should I submit those, or do you have copies of those
patches? I've lost track of whether I submitted those.

>     Similarly, the "etc/hylafax.sh" script in the source used locations of
>     the script inconsistent with RedHat 5.0 and needed tweaking to install
>     as "hylafax" in /etc/rc.d/init.d/.
> 
> ... this should also fix all problems in etc/hylafax script (because
> it is created by the configure from etc/hylafax.in). If not one
> should send mods for a better etc/hylafax.in (e.g. with hooks
> for platform dependent scripts).

I'm *WORKING* on it, Matthias. (Grin!) Sam's shell scripting in the
configure was very sophisticated and robust. I have to be very
cautious tweaking it or I tend to break it, or violate the protocols
he used to do things. It takes tweaking etc/hylafax.in,
etc/Makefile.in, and configure to use a new field for "init.d" scripts.
And different OS's have different ideas of how to do this: I've only
got Linux and SunOS to play with right now.

> I think most of the problems in the RPM's are the result of putting
> things together in a wrong way or w/o knowledge how the things are
> designed to be (remember the discussion about creating modem-config
> files by hand and not run the faxsetup(1M) tool).

I agree again. Boy, you must be smart, because I agree with you so often!

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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