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#!/bin/bash
# dpkg configuration script for linuxcnc
# Copyright (C) 2006 Jeff Epler
# Copyright (C) 2006 Jeff Epler
# 2025-2026 Steffen Moeller
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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set -e

if [[ -z "$OSTYPE" ]]; then
echo "E: The 'OSTYPE' environment variable is not set."
echo " Failure to confirm Linux as the operating system cannot be determined."
exit 1
else
echo "D: Found operating system '$OSTYPE'."
if [[ ! "$OSTYPE" == "linux-gnu"* ]]; then
echo "W: LinuxCNC is not (yet) prepared for the operating system '$OSTYPE'."
if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "freebsd"* ]]; then
echo " For FreeBSD there have been reports for LinuxCNC to compile and be executable."
else
if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
echo
echo " LinuxCNC is yet unlikely to be successfully built on MacOS because of missing dependencies."
if command -v brew &> /dev/null; then
echo " With brew, we are aware of packages"
echo " autoconf automake libusb libmodbus libtircp pkgconf"
echo " but missing is, e.g., a package for libgpiod."
fi
fi
fi
echo " Instead of this Debian+derivative-tailored configuration please invoke the compilation directly."
exit 1
fi
fi

usage () {
P=${0##*/}
cat 1>&2 <<EOF
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