Include "makeself" in SVN trunk (compiling for Fedora 18)

[Quickbooks Office]

Include "makeself" in SVN trunk (compiling for Fedora 18).

The long workaround:

1. Download makeself from: ​http://megastep.org/makeself/makeself.run

2. In terminal do: sh. /makeself.run

3. Copy all the files which are extracted to /usr/bin

4. Then after all that we still have to run the configure command differently: ./configure --with-makeself="/usr/bin/makeself.sh"

[Perry G]

SVN is not normally discussed in the bug tracker. I know you have read my tutorial because you said so on the DEV maillist and it explains what to do about makeself. Why are you now marking these as bugs. Seems like a total waste of the DEVs time.

[Frank Mehnert]

Exactly. The VirtualBox subversion repository is also not a place for hosting public available build tools.

[Quickbooks Office]

Replying to frank:

Exactly. The VirtualBox subversion repository is also not a place for hosting public available build tools.

I cannot edit the title apparantly. But I have another suggestion:

Can you tell the Configure file to look for "makeself" files in the vbox folder (the folder created via this "svn co ​http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox") ?

That way we can just dump the makeself files inside the folder where we run ./configure ?

And then if it cannot find the makeself files in its own folder, look for it in /usr/bin/

Thanks.

[Frank Mehnert]

configure will find makeself in the current folder if you extend the PATH variable to search in the local folder as well. But there will be no explicit search of the configure script in the current folder.