Simple Dependency Build Scripts ------------------------------- You want to install tool X and find that it needs library Y and perl module Z. If you are lucky, Y and Z are available as packages for your OS and you can install them. But often, X requires the latest version of Y and Z is so obscure it only exists on CPAN. Enters sdbs: build_x_deps.sh: #!/bin/bash . `dirname $0`/sdbs.inc simplebuild http://www.X.com/downloads/ Y-23.tar.gz perlmodule Y By default the script will build and install everything in ../thirdparty relative to its own location. You can call the script with an argument if you want the installation to go somewhere else. OS packages needed for building the software (`gcc-c++`, `flex` and `bison` are required for RRDtool builder): yum install -y git gcc gcc-c++ make libtool xz bzip2 wget flex bison Enjoy! Tobi Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>