install-dependency fails on Ubuntu lucid/10.04

[J.D.]

Hi successfully installed pipelight using the prebuilt pluginloader.exe and a custom wine version. However, the script install-dependency uses the program mktemp with the option --suffix, which doesn't exist under lucid, probably it was introduced later. Removing this option (and suffix) works for installing silverlight, I didn't test the other dependencies. It seems the suffix (.exe) is nice but not really necessary. Please fix to support older distributions as well.

pipelight-0.2.4.2

[Sebastian Lackner (slackner)]

Hi,

thanks for reporting this problem.

The problem is that for newer distros all the "old" command line switches -t and -p are marked as deprecated, which could mean that they'll probably be dropped in a future version. I don't like the idea of downgrading to use deprecated commands - but I agree that a solution / a way which is fully compatible for all distros would be nice.

Unfortunately I haven't any OS with an older version of mktemp right here, so could you please test whats exactly the behaviour for your distro? I would like to see the output of the following commands:

mktemp --suffix ".exe"; echo $?
mktemp -t pipelight.XXXXXXX.exe
mktemp -t pipelight.exe.XXXXXXX

Thanks,
Sebastian

[J.D. (fungs)]

mktemp --suffix ".exe"; echo $?
mktemp: unrecognized option '--suffix'
Try `mktemp --help' for more information.
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mktemp -t pipelight.exe.XXXXXXX
/tmp/pipelight.exe.lwarLTW

mktemp -t pipelight.XXXXXXX.exe
mktemp: too few X's in template `pipelight.XXXXXXX.exe'

If you don't rely on any extension, you can simply use mktemp without options. This worked for me!

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

Hi,

this problem is now fixed by commit https://bitbucket.org/mmueller2012/pipelight/commits/89a9446110702e41ec40de359553379ccf5d2403 though we do not officially support Ubuntu versions which already reached the EOL for the desktop version.

Michael