Re: [CI] CI reorg mostly done

[Aneesh K. K.V <ane...@di...>]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 10:16, Watson, Brian J. (HP) wrote:
> Aneesh-
> 
> The new CI repository is ready for you to fix up the cluster-tools build
> 
> system. It should be relatively easy, since most of the changes involved
> 
> removing files. Only the cmd, libcluster, and man directories remain, 
> and some of the stuff from cmd and man have been removed. As I described
> 
> in a previous e-mail, they're moving to the OpenSSI repository.
> 
> One significant change is that I removed the include directory. This 
> stuff should be fetched from the kernel source so that we don't have two

This required some changes to cluster.h ssisys.h in the kernel
directory. I am not committing changes for the same. But once we have
openssi repository also reorganised  I guess we can fix these issues.
Also we need to make sure we don't keep the same  files in both the
repository. 


> 
> copies to keep in sync. The kernel directory of the CI repository 
> contains these header files, although for better generality the 
> configure script could allow the user to override this kernel source 
> location.

yes user can override the kernel source directory when configuring by 

./configure --with-linux_srcdir=<linux-src-dir>


> 
> Note that my original e-mail about the reorg envisioned configure.ac 
> being in the root of the CI repository. I now think I prefer to have it 
> in cluster-tools, like it was. The only thing it's used for building is 
> cluster-tools, anyway. I'm not sure we want to automatically build the 
> kernel with it.
> 
We need to keep configure.ac in ci directory since  running 

automake --add-missing   in the ci/cluster-tools will throw this error. 

kvaneesh@gfsserv:~/SSI-reorg/ci-test/cluster-tools$ automake
--add-missing
Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./README' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found


I have modified ci/configure.ac. We need to delete
ci/cluster-tools/configure.ac. Once you confirm on the above changes we
can delete the same.As you can also see from the changes i did, no
Makefiles are generated in ci/ directory. configure creates related
Makefiles under ci/cluster-tools/ directory only . So the procedure to
build is 

cd ci 
< All the steps need to configure >
cd cluster-tools
make 
make install 


> I'm also concerned about the precedent it would set for the OpenSSI 
> repository. Originally I thought it could have a configure.ac that 
> configured and built all of the OpenSSI utilities (openssi-tools, 
> util-linux, ipvsadm, etc.), but I'm afraid it would get too complicated 
> to deal with the various configuration options each of them have. 
> Besides, I think in the long-term that most developers and users will 
> install binary packages and just build from source the stuff they want 
> to customize or enhance.
> 

I will look into this once openssi repository  reorganisation is
finished. Ideally i would expect one make install to install the entire
set of utilities for me. 


-aneesh