Re: [sicsh-develop] Hello? Anyone here?

[Gary V. V. <ga...@gn...>]

Ken Weinert wrote:
> Just curious if anyone is still using this.
> 
> I got into in in a sort of backwards way - from the autotools book. I
> am attempting to learn the proper way of setting up a somewhat major
> open source project so I jumped into the complex version of the code.
> At first it was just for setup and such, but after looking at the code
> I thought maybe I'd try to use it as a base since my project is also
> designed to use "plugins" (loadable modules.)
> 
> I am having a small problem though. It doesn't look as if any of the
> modules are getting loaded. I figured that would be normal enough
> since I made all those changes so I thought I'd go back to the
> original and try and track down where I'd gone wrong in my changes.
> 
> Unfortunately the latest code downloaded from SF has exactly the same
> problem. from appearances none of the modules are loaded.
> 
> I'll presume this is some sort of basic dumb thing I've done and it
> will sound familiar and someone here will say "Did you try ...?" and
> I'll be back on track.
> 
> Thanks for any info.

Hi Ken,

Yep, I'm still here :-)

I expect the problem is that the sicsh code is bitrotted with respect
to the latest autotools.  The goat book is over 4 years old now, and
a lot has changed since then...

I'll have a little time in the new year to bring it up to date.  In
the mean time you might want to check out CVS GNU M4 which also has
a loadable module system built around libltdl.  It makes use of newer
features in CVS Libtool (branch-2-0), and is a bit of a pain to
bootstrap from CVS.  If you get stuck with this, or you'd rather see
a sicsh that works with current autotools, then ping me in the new
year and I'll do what I can to help.

Cheers,
	Gary.
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