Re: [gsmp-devel] (no subject)

[Rene R. <ren...@gm...>]

From: Pierre Sarrazin <sar...@sy...>
Subject: [gsmp-devel] (no subject)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 19:17:06 -0500

> I had trouble compiling the CVS version of GSMP:
> =

> =

> 1. I had to manually create many directories in which the compiler
> wanted to write the object files: Threads/lib, Plugins/lib,
> GSML/obj/src, etc.

The CVS is NOT in a stable state and will be replaced with an
overworked CVS-friendly directory layout ... - Plese use 0.0.3!

> 2. Because I wanted to speed up the compilation, I had to delete
> several instances of -O options that were hardcoded in the makefiles.=


You do not need to remove the -O. Gcc only uses the last optimization
argument. (see man gcc). Compiling gsmp without any optimization will
result in a very very (!!) slow binary!

> 3. 'make install' should not attempt to run ldconfig because that
> requires root privileges.  An ordinary user should be able to install=

> into his home directory and then use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment
> variable to inform the system loader.  What 'make install'
> could do is to print a warning telling the user about ldconfig.

In the normal case the installation also requires root-privileges and
gsmp (as many other library or plugin based programms) normally need a
ldconfig run.

> 4. Finally, 'make install' should create $(bindir) before copying
> files into that directory.  The program's executable file ended
> up being installed with the name $(bindir)...

Yes thanks! I think we fixed this already?

> Are there any intentions of adapting the project to Automake and
> Libtool?  If not, I could attempt to do that on my machine and
> contribute the changes if I succeed.  Automake would take care
> of many tedious makefile details.

There is work done to convert gsmp to a more GUN auto* stuff by
Emmanuel Fleury.
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> The object code files would not be sent to ./lib or ./obj
> subdirectories.  To separate object code from the sources, it
> would always be possible to compile into a properly ./configured
> empty directory.

We once feelt the object / binary seperation is a cool feature. But we
had to find out that the GNU tools (from gcc, to ld, makedepend) do
not like this much.

> -- =

> Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>

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