Re: Couple of build system points

[ urf. wrote this earlier today, but got distracted and forgot about it... ]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:30:47PM -0400, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> A couple of issues I've found regarding the build system.
>
> 1) Make extraclean:
> When doing make extraclean, we skip neon. Firstly, we also need to skip
> db/dist. Secondly, we should 'make distclean' instead.

The "make distclean" should have occurred when extraclean invoked the
distclean rule. IOW, extraclean simply shouldn't worry about neon and db.
But it should worry about APR since we (normally) pull that from CVS.

[ extraclean is about cleaning a directory from "dist-ready" (i.e. files
  such as ./configure are present) to its cleanest form: like when it comes
  straight from CVS ]

> I plan on fixing this by the patch at the end of this mail.
>
> 2) When the db-in-tree is built, we need to do a couple of things:
> a) Make sure it is a valid version

Shouldn't be hard, but no immediate ideas here...

> b) Make sure it finishes building before we try to link against it(think
> make -j here).

I guess this would imply that we create a rule for building the library,
which recurses into the db directory.

> Not sure of the best approach here.
>
> 3) When we have no db or apache, we need to make sure that the install
> target doesn't depend on the fs/module components, or else we try
> to build it at install time.
>
> My plan for this was to change the way build.conf works, by combining the
> group and install options. Thus we would have install values of
> lib, fs-lib, bin, fs-bin, sbin, fs-sbin, test, fs-test. Then change

Well... combining them is somewhat combinatorial. Note there is also an
fs-lib-test and a lib-test. (or is that test-lib? :-)

For the install issue, I just tried the attached patch and it created an
install-fs-libs rule for me, and removed the FS libs from the main
install-lib rule. Then, we would just have a little tweak in configure.in
and Makefile.in to set up the install stuff. (no gen-make changes needed)

[ of course, I *do* see that group and install are somewhat/usually related,
  but I'm also a bit leery of all the various combos. it seems somewhat
  preferable to specify them independently ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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