configure/make best practices?

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What’s the Ansible best practice for doing a typical source compile of multiple packages?

So, let’s say you have three source packages that all require the same
three steps: configure, make, and make install.

The three packages have all have been untar-ed into their own directories:

/var/tmp/pkg1
/var/tmp/pkg2
/var/tmp/pkg3

What’s the typical Ansible way to handle it?

  • name: build sources

command: chdir=/var/tmp/{{ item }} sudo .configure --prefix=/usr

command: chdir=/var/tmp/{{ item }} sudo make

command: chdir=/var/tmp/{{ item }} sudo make install

with_items:

  • pkg1

  • pkg2

  • pkg3

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I guess I’ll answer my own question. This seems to be the most common approach:

  • name: build ffmpeg

command: chdir=/var/tmp/ffmpeg-0.11 {{ item }}

with_items:

  • sudo ./configure --enable-libmp3lame

  • sudo make

  • sudo make install PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin

If you need env variables set for a specific step, you can add them on the

command line as I’ve done with the PATH above. The PATH is changed only for

the ‘sudo’ (e.g. root) environment.

J

3

Not a direct answer, but I can strongly recommend making your own packages
for this sort of situation. It's make those tasks idempotent and scales a lot
better if you can leverage your underlying package manager.

Building debs/rpms is a massive pain, I know - have a look at FPM
( https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm )
if you need something to make it really easy.

4

Yep, I’d designate one machine a build server and build packages there, then make a local apt or yum repository.

This is pretty easy either way you go.