Fake program

Goal

This program does nothing.

The idea is just to have a program named fake-program running on your system.

It is also possible to have it run at system boot as a systemd service.

A manual page is provided.

In addition, this project was an opportunity to test Meson build system.

Important

The program here is called " fake-program " You can easily replace it by a name of your choosing by running the following commands in the main directory: $ sed -i 's/fake-program/YOUR_PROGRAM_NAME/g' meson.build $ rename fake-program YOUR_PROGRAM_NAME *

Installation

Clone the project

$ git clone https://github.com/hcabot/fake-program
$ cd fake-program

You can now either:

• build it manually and use it straightaway

• build and install it using Meson

Meson is configured to use Ninja.

The build system will execute the following steps:

1. Setup the build

2. Compile

3. Install the executable in /usr/local/bin/

4. Install the manual page

5. Install the fake-program.service systemd service file

Pick one of the following steps.

Build manually

$ gcc -Wall -Wextra main.c -o fake-program

Build using Meson

$ meson setup builddir
$ cd builddir
$ ninja
$ sudo ninja install