[ccmtools-devel] ccmtools c++ environment module

[Leif J. <le...@am...>]

Hi all -

I've just created a new CVS module containing the C++ environment for
our generated components. I tried to whip together a build system and
some scanty docs (see INSTALL and README), but I haven't tried building
and installing the module yet.

To check out this module, do the following at a prompt :

  $ cvs -d :ext:use...@cv...:/cvsroot/ccmtools co cpp-environment

If I estimate correctly, we'll need to do a few things in the next few
days to make sure this is a smooth transition :

- make sure the environment builds and installs properly. This
  shouldn't be too much hassle, but we'll need to mess around
  with the Makefile in CCM_Remote/RemoteComponents/. Currently,
  it makes a call to ccmtools-idl, which is in the ccmtools
  package. We can't have this circular dependency, so we might
  need to mess around with how we build the skeletons/stubs
  within the cpp-environment module. I think this will end up
  being some sort of Confix build solution.

- add some checks to the ccmtools/configure.ac script that see
  whether the environment is installed, and enable/disable some
  of the generators appropriately. I'll work on this tonight or
  tomorrow.

- modify the ccmtools/test/Cpp*Generator/ scripts so that the
  environment will be loaded properly during testing. As long
  as we can convince Confix to use multiple repositories, this
  is no problem.

That's it. Sorry for the breakage in advance, but yet again this is
making the tools a more solid package (I think :). Cheers !

leif

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