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+#!/bin/sh
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#   Copyright (c) 2004 Media Development Loan Fund
+#
+#   This file is part of the LiveSupport project.
+#   http://livesupport.campware.org/
+#   To report bugs, send an e-mail to bugs@campware.org
+#
+#   LiveSupport is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+#   (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#   LiveSupport is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#   GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#   along with LiveSupport; if not, write to the Free Software
+#   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+#
+#
+#   Author   : $Author: fberckel $
+#   Version  : $Revision: 1.1 $
+#   Location : $Source: /home/paul/cvs2svn-livesupport/newcvsrepo/livesupport/bin/startMakeRecompile.sh,v $
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# This script runs cvs to update the LiveSupport source code and starts
+# the recompile process. 
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+reldir=`dirname $0`/..
+basedir=`cd $reldir; pwd;`
+bindir=$basedir/bin
+docdir=$basedir/doc
+tmpdir=$basedir/tmp
+logdir=$basedir/tmp
+export PATH=~/bin:$PATH
+
+echo "";
+echo "The source code will be updated first and the recompile process"; 
+echo "will be started. All steps are being logged within the log";
+echo "directory $logdir";
+echo "";
+
+cd $bindir/..
+cvs update -dP >& $logdir/cvs_before_setup.log
+ls -l $logdir/cvs_before_setup.log >> $logdir/cvs_before_setup.log
+echo "Compare with cvs is be done, cvs_before_setup.log is created"
+make distclean >& $logdir/distclean_before_setup.log
+ls -l $logdir/distclean_before_setup.log >> $logdir/distclean_before_setup.log
+echo "Cleaning the setup is be done, distclean_before_setup.log is created"
+#make tools_setup >& $logdir/tools_setup.log
+#ls -l $logdir/tools_setup.log >> $logdir/tools_setup.log
+#echo "Done Tools Setup, tools_setup.log is created"
+echo "Skipping Tools, remove # for recompiling tools";
+echo "Now Configure ..."
+make modules_setup >& $logdir/modules_setup.log
+ls -l $logdir/modules_setup.log >> $logdir/modules_setup.log
+echo "Configure the Modules is be done, modules_setup.log is created"
+make products_setup >& $logdir/products_setup.log
+ls -l $logdir/products_setup.log >> $logdir/products_setup.log
+echo "Configure the Products is be done, products_setup.log is created";
+echo "Now Recompiling ..."
+make compile >& $logdir/compile.log 
+ls -l $logdir/compile.log >> $logdir/compile.log
+echo "Compiling is be done, compile.log is created";
+echo "Now checking ..."
+make check >& $logdir/check.log
+ls -l $logdir/check.log >> $logdir/check.log
+echo "Checking is be done, check.log is created";
+echo ""