Poise-Build-Essential Cookbook

A Chef cookbook to install a C compiler and build tools.

Quick Start

To install a C compiler:

include_recipe 'poise-build-essential'

Or to install using a resource and at compile time:

poise_build_essential 'build_essential' do
  action :nothing
end.run_action(:install)

Recipes

• poise-build-essential::default – Install a C compiler and build tools.

Attributes

• node['poise-build-essential']['action'] – Action to use. One of install, upgrade, or remove. (default: install)
• node['poise-build-essential']['allow_unsupported_platform'] – Whether or not to raise an error on unsupported platforms. (default: false)

Resources

poise_build_essential

The poise_build_essential resource installs a C compiler and build tools.

poise_build_essential 'build_essential' do
  allow_unsupported_platform true
end

Actions

• :install – Install a C compiler. (default)
• :upgrade – Install a C compiler using package action :ugprade rules.
• :remove – Remove a C compiler.

Properties

• allow_unsupported_platform – Whether or not to raise an error on unsupported platforms. (default: false)

Sponsors

Development sponsored by SAP.

The Poise test server infrastructure is sponsored by Rackspace.

License

Some code copyright 2008-2017, Chef Software, Inc. Used under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Copyright 2017, Noah Kantrowitz

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.