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KLone is a fully-featured, multiplatform, web application development framework, targeted especially for embedded systems and appliances.
http://koanlogic.com/klone/
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Recommended build process fails on Mac OS X, probably others #1

Closed ghost closed 12 years ago

ghost commented 13 years ago

Klone’s recommended build process fails to complete on Mac OS X, and probably also on other platforms without intervention, because of a dependency on wget. Using curl as a fallback would resolve the issue for at least Mac OS X.

wget isn’t part of a standard Mac OS X installation, even after installing the developer tools. Mac OS X doesn’t have a standard package repository either, so would-be Klone users are left to find and install wget from a third party source.

If I remember correctly, wget isn’t part of a base FreeBSD system either, though installing it on FreeBSD is more straightforward.

curl is part of a standard installation on Mac OS X, and it seems to be common on Linux systems too. FreeBSD also ships with a similar tool, fetch. Supporting these as fallbacks when wget is unavailable would improve portability, at least for the build process.

babongo commented 13 years ago

You're right, and in fact all the ready-made klapp's at http://wiki.koanlogic.com/doku.php?id=klone have a slightly different Makefile than the one in the tutorial:

# set the following as needed (wget should be ok on most platforms)
#export FETCH_CMD = curl -O
#export FETCH_CMD = ftp
#export FETCH_CMD = fetch
export FETCH_CMD = wget

[KLONE_... vars settings]

include klapp.mk

klapp.mk: ; $(FETCH_CMD) http://koanlogic.com/klone/klapp.mk

I think it's time for us to upgrade the site :) Thanks, t.

stewy commented 12 years ago

The tutorial has had a comment on FETCH_CMD for a while, but we forgot to close the issue.