[Sablevm-developer] build-dev script

[Chris P. <chr...@ma...>]

Hi,

I'm Chris, a new SableVM developer, and an M.Sc. student at Mcgill in 
the Sable lab.  I'm working on a speculative multithreading project for 
SableVM.  I'm a bit of a Linux newbie so I apologize in advance for 
whatever transgressions there may be.

I made a build script for developers based on what Etienne posted 
recently, because the build script in the CVS only works for the 1.0.5 
release tarballs.

I don't understand the following line which appears twice:

% /home/egagnon/sablevm/r

Also, etags -R doesn't work for me (it asks me for filenames and I can't 
make it go into directories recursively), and make indent doesn't work 
either, so I left them out.  Maybe etags should go into the Makefile so 
you can say 'make etags'.  I think I need to install indent or something 
(it doesn't appear to be on the Sable lab machines), and if that's the 
case, maybe you want to add to the INSTALL file that developers need to 
install GNU indent if they want 'make indent' to work (at which point it 
is probably fine to add it to the build-dev script).

Feel free to modify this, but it would be handy to have the file in the 
CVS.  It took me a while to get everything working.

The Swing stuff still doesn't compile properly.  I get errors in the 
following files:

src/gnu/javax/swing/plaf/gtk/GtkBorders.java (1 error)
src/gnu/javax/swing/plaf/gtk/GtkRadioButtonUI.java (2 errors)
src/gnu/javax/swing/plaf/gtk/GtkSliderUI.java (16 errors)

Cheers,
Chris

P.S.  It would be nice to make it possible to specify ./configure 
options to this script from the command line; for now you still have to 
edit it to get the features you want.

P.P.S.  It might be nice to add

% rm -rf $LOCATION

to the top of the script, but that means that nobody else can write to 
that directory.  Perhaps it would be best if developers had to specify 
an environment variable for where the development build of sablevm goes 
-- this prevents accidental install to /usr/local if one forgets to type 
a location.

P.P.P.S.  Finally, I have to check out a fresh copy of all the sources 
from (my local) CVS every time I run this script to make it work, 
otherwise it complains that sablevm.c is not there.  I don't understand 
why.  It appears that only sablevm.c.bak is present.