[Emc-developers] plat ??

[Ray H. <re...@up...>]

Developers

It seems to me that we could simplify our compiles/installs just a bit if we 
eliminated the naming of versions in the plat directories.  We have found 
plat/realtime and plat/nonrealtime links to be viable names why not make them 
the directories that hold the respective files.  Yes, it would mean you could 
not make more than one version under a single emc directory.  But I always 
found that I wanted a complete separate set of files in a NIST directory 
anyway.

If the realtime modules always built into plat/realtime and the nonrealtime 
files built into plat/nonrealtime, we could cut out a lot of the search stuff 
in a .run file because we would know where they were.  We could cut out the 
search and replace in all of the tickle files because UNKNOWN_PLAT in the 
source sections of these programs would always be nonrealtime.  I believe 
that we could remove the .realtime?? file from the emc directory because we 
would know where to look for modules regardless of the version.  

I don't know much about makefiles but it would seem that they could also be 
made to work into realtime and nonrealtime directories more easily that they 
could by trying to parse some lines in an obscure file to find the versions 
for rt and non-rt.  I have seen a few automakes that ask the builder for this 
kind of info up front.  

Having done such a remodel, it would be a really good idea to pile some of 
this info into standard named files that are built with and contained in each 
distrbution.  This should include date, builder, distro, compilers, libraries 
and such.  This might even look like an ini file with variable names and 
value assignments so that we could get all of that info when we need it.

We had a file that worked a bit like this working a while back.  I seem to 
remember referrencing it from the help menu of tkemc.  

Comments?

Ray