https://github.com/chadwhitacre/watch

This is a port of watch(1) for Mac OS X.
https://github.com/chadwhitacre/watch

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This is a port of watch(1) for Mac OS X.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/chadwhitacre/watch
• Owner: chadwhitacre
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2011-06-18T22:09:52.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-06-18T22:11:42.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-14T08:25:21.074Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 121 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
ABOUT

    

    This package contains the 'watch' command line program

    from the 'procps' Linux utilities package, slightly

    modified and tweaked to run on Mac OS X by Sveinbjorn

    Thordarson  and Chad Whitacre .

COMPATIBILITY

    This package has been tested on Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4,

    but should in theory work on any Mac OS X installation

    which includes the ncurses library.

INSTALLATION

    In order to install this program, you should run the

    following commands from the source directory:

    make

    sudo make install

    The default installation path is /usr/local/bin/ for the

    'watch' application binary, and /usr/share/man/man1 for 

    the 'watch' manpage.  /usr/local/bin is not included in

    the default Mac OS X path, so you may have to add it to

    your shell initialization script (typically, ~/.profile)

    To change the installation paths, you must edit the 

    Makefile manually.

PACKAGING

    If you are a downstream maintainer (packager) of any sort,

    please avoid causing troubles. This section applies to you.

    Send patches in regularly. Many patches made by vendors have been buggy,

    some quite severely so. Sending in a patch will at least get it reviewed,

    if not included. There is a procps test suite that must be passed.

    Forward all bug reports. If your bug database is public and busy enough

    to bother with, please make this known. Follow Debian's lead in making

    the bug database easy to comment on via email w/o need for an account.

    Do not change the user interface. Many of the programs are intended to be

    compatible with Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, IRIX, Tru64, and the UNIX standard.

    Your nice new command options WILL BE BROKEN as needed to ensure that

    procps remains compatible with the rest of the world. Sysadmins hate to

    deal with incompatible behavior. If you need a new option, ask for it.

    For normal packages, ensure that you do not add debugging flags

    to the CFLAGS variable. If debugging flags are present, the Makefile

    will avoid adding several optimizations that would interfere with gdb.

    There should be no need to modify the Makefile. You can set variables

    on the "make" command line or use "make -e" to pass variables from

    the environment.

BUG REPORTS

    For bugs relating to this particular package, email Sveinbjorn Thordarson 

    Debian users should use the Debian bug tracking system.

    Email to [email protected] or [email protected] or

    [email protected] will also work.