Re: [FleXML-Users] new checkins to flexml.pl and skel files

[Martin Q. <mar...@im...>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:30:39AM -0500, Dowling, Will (TS USA) wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 19:56, Martin Quinson wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 12:38:29PM -0500, Dowling, Will (TS USA) wrote:
> > > I'd like to modify the Makefile a bit.  The principle goal would be to
> > > allow >1 version of flexml to exist on a system at the same time. [..=
=2E]
> >=20
> > I don't feel the need to add this by default to the code, but as an opt=
ion,
> > it would be welcome, I guess. Please make it a specific target of the
> > Makefile so that it doesn't trouble the other targets. [...]
> > You don't want to convert your ton of existing parsers right now, do yo=
u ? hehe.
>=20
> No parsers will have to be modified.  I'm only talking about modifying
> the installation location of various flexml components.  The output from
> 'make install' (setting the base directory to /tmp/foo) will be

[snip]

> Note /tmp/foo/bin/flexml still exists as a symlink to flexml-1.2.
> flexml.pl will be changed to make sure it picks up the default skel file
> from the new place where it was installed.

Yeah, that's what I understood. I'm only faintly interested in this becoming
the default mode of installation. If you manage to get it running as a
specific make target (ideally, without duplicating too much code), you
should commit it. You may even want to commit it anyway so that I can see i=
t.

If not, we will need the advice of something else (ie, I'm not a fan, but
it's only my advice).=20

> I'd also like to pull out the common definitions in Makefile and
> examples/Makefile into a single file Makefile.defs, then use
>   include Makefile.defs
>=20
> Any objections?  (Do non-gnu make programs handle "include"?)

I don't think so, because if so, automake would use it more extensively.=20
But I'm not sure we care about really prehistoric make :) I'd say it's a go=
od
idea. My last modifications to the Makefile were mainly hacks to get it
running quickly. Cleanup is really welcome.


Thanks for your time,=20
Mt.