Payload Delivery Vehicle Payload Delivery Vehicle builds an executable that contains a complete package and the commands required to install it.
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Payload Delivery Vehicle builds an executable that contains a complete package and the commands required to install it. Payload Delivery Vehicle (or PDV for short) is a program that builds an executable that contains a complete package (e.g. and RPM, System V package or tar file) and the commands required to install it. When the executable is run it will extract the payload (the package) and then execute another command (such as rpm -i, pkgadd -d etc.). The big advantage to this is that a developer can hand a user a single file to be executed - the end user does not need to know how to extract the package or how to install it.Note that the file that is created is a binary executable that is onlyuseful for matching platforms. This is not generally a limitation sincethe binaries distributed as a package usually target a particularplatform.Installing/BuildingFor instructions on building/installing please refer to thefile named INSTALL (PDV uses GNU configure).There are some binaries available on sourceforge (see Downloading), otherwise the sources will build easily.Thanks to the powerful GNU configuration and build utilitiesyou should be able to use PDV on just about any UNIXishplatform. If you have platform specific problems please writeme (gwiley@ieee.org) and I will do what I can to address them.If you successfully overcome porting problems I would like toknow what you did so that I can incorporate the changes inthe distribution.The following systems have sucessfully built/executed pdv: Solaris 8 (sparc) gcc 2.95 gnu make Solaris 2.6 (sparc) gcc 2.95 gnu make Linux (Red Hat 6.0) egcs 2.91What's New in This Release:· Version 1.5.1 implements a fix for a bug that causes cores when using help files over 1K.

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