Poise-Build-Essential Cookbook

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

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)

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

• 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)

The poise_build_essential resource installs a C compiler and build tools.

poise_build_essential 'build_essential' do
  allow_unsupported_platform true
end

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

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

Development sponsored by SAP.

The Poise test server infrastructure is sponsored by Rackspace.

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

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