Re: [ccmtools-devel] HelloWorld falls silent

[Egon T. <ego...@ut...>]

Hi Darrell!

Darrell Schiebel wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been looking at CCM tools/frameworks, and I got interested in 
> ccmtools. However, I can't make the simple hello-world example in the 
> tutorial work. Attached is a log of my errors, but the one that has me 
> stopped is:
>        Cannot determine build directory because root of package 
> compilation tree (aka BUILDROOT) not specified
>        The ccmtools environment cannot be installed from 
> /tmp/ccmtools-cpp-environment.

Unfortunately, the last ccmtools release (version 0.3.2) is out of date, 
but you can check out a current version (0.3.3) from CVS:

$ cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ccmtools login
Password: <press enter>
$ cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ccmtools co ccmtools
$ cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ccmtools co cpp-environment
$ cvs -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/ccmtools co java-environment

This CVS version corresponds to the tutorial available from the ccmtools 
homepage. There are about 30 test cases in the ccmtools/test directory 
which are running through.
Sorry for your troubles. In the next days, I will put an up-to-date 
pre-release version on the ccmtools homepage.

> I can get it to put all of this stuff somewhere else by setting the TMP 
> (or TEMP) environment variable (surely there's a better place/way), but 
> still the same error persists. Setting BUILDROOT is no help, and it 
> seems to ignore ~/.confix completely.

In the current version, we have skipped the ccmtools-cpp-environment 
script. Now there are three packages (java-environment, cpp-environment 
and ccmtools). You install *-environment first (using Ant and Confix).
After that, ccmtools can be installed and used - see chapter 3 of the 
tutorial.

> This isn't exactly a "typical" install... I created RPMs... first for 
> ccmtools, and then for confix (when ccmtools seemed to need it). These 
> are available at ftp://ftp.cv.nrao.edu/aips++/development/rpms/noarch/. 
> Perhaps I'll have to back out and try to get the regular install to work 
> first... here are the RPMs that are being used (I believe):
> 
>        antlr-2.7.2-3jpp
>        confix-1.3.pre21-2ds
>        automake-1.6.3-5
>        ccmtools-jdom-0.3.2-1ds
>        ccmtools-doc-0.3.2-1ds
>        autoconf-2.57-3
>        ccmtools-0.3.2-1ds
> 
> (note that ANTLR is coming from jpackage!). Can anyone provide any 
> suggestions? I'd really like to give this a try.

You are right, our install procedure needs some refactoring ;-)

Thanks for your constructive ccmtools investigations.

:-) Egon