An Ansible role to download and install GnuCOBOL from source. Supported distributions are the currently maintained releases of the Red Hat family and derivatives, and Ubuntu LTS. At this time tests are run on Rocky Linux 9, CentOS Stream 10, CentOS Stream 9, Fedora 41, Fedora 40, Fedora 39, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.
Inspired by the ansible-role-gnu-cobol role.
None.
The variables that control the role behaviour are listed below with their respective defaults:
gnucobol_install_dir: /opt
The base directory of the installation
gnucobol_release: 3.2
The Gnu COBOL release to install. Currently valid values are: 1.1, 2.0, 2.2, 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2.
gnucobol_user: gnucobol
The owner of the installation.
gnucobol_group: gnucobol
The installation group.
gnucobol_src_dir: /sw/gnucobol
The directory where the source archive is downloaded, extracted and built.
gnucobol_force: false
When true installation is performed even if a bug fix release of the same
minor version was already installed. Useful to repeat installations after
something went wrong or to perform upgrades.
None.
- hosts: servers
roles:
- role: nmusatti.source_gnucobol
vars:
gnucobol_release: 3.2
GPLv3
Nicola Musatti - https://github.com/nmusatti