[Indic-computing-devel] Re: debian toolchain question.

[Cherry G. M. <ber...@ya...>]

>>>>> "alok" == alok kumar <alo...@so...> writes:

    alok> What I gather is that all we need is a different set of
    alok> makefiles for the different installations. The dependencies
    alok> - ie sources, documents (*.sgml) need not be duplicated.
    alok> So, the Makefile would contain stuff like if(debian) then
    alok> make -f debianmakefile else ...  etc and everything else
    alok> stays the same. Thus, the specific makefiles are
    alok> different. At the same time the dependencies are stored only
    alok> in one location. A change to a particular makefile should
    alok> set the "dirty bit" on for the others - to see if there is
    alok> an impact on the others. Is that what is implied?  

Yes, IIUC, the sources. What the makefiles currently do is to set up
environment variables, pathnames to tool binaries, tool command line
parameters etc..... Then the tools are invoked in the correct
sequence. Since all these depend on the OS specific file system
layout, versions of tools ( for example the jade command line problems
you had earlier ), etc, I feel its best to have separate branches of
the Makefiles. In fact, we could even have the Makefiles re-written in
GNU make on GNU/Linux systems, to bring down package dependencies....



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