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judfilm

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Registered: 2004-02-12

Posts: 229

[AUR] memtester

EDIT: Now in the AUR - Thanks to Tardo and Snowman!

"A userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults. It's portable and should compile and work on any 32- or 64-bit Unix-like system. (Yes, even weird, proprietary Unices.)"

"memtester is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2  (only)."

Homepage: http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/
Current version: 4.0.6

tardo

Member

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [AUR] memtester

Not sure about dependencies, but this worked for me. I'll add it to AUR soon.

# Contributor: tardo <tardo>
pkgname=memtester
pkgver=4.0.6
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A userspace utility for testing the memory subsystem for faults"
url="http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/"
license="GPL"
makedepends=('glibc')
source=(http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/old-versions/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('0e6f7335075443ed0863a0df75689359')

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  make || return 1
  gzip -c memtester.8 >memtester.8.gz
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man8
  cp memtester $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  cp memtester.8.gz $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man8
}

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: [AUR] memtester

Few comment|:
The

makedepends=('glibc') 

line can be removed. Everyone has glibc installed.

The build function could be simplified. Replace

  gzip -c memtester.8 >memtester.8.gz
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man8
  cp memtester $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  cp memtester.8.gz $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man8 

by

install -D -m755 memtester $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/memtester
install -D -m644 memtester.8 $startdir/pkg/usr/man/man8/memtester.8

makepkg automatically compress man pages.

You could use namcap to check for the dependencies.

tardo

Member

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 526

Re: [AUR] memtester

Thanks for the tips. Wasn't sure if a dependency was required so I put it there. And namcap didn't show anything =[

judfilm

Member

Registered: 2004-02-12

Posts: 229

Re: [AUR] memtester

Thanks guys, much appreciated.