Re: [Tack-devel] CVS & the new build system

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

tim kelly wrote:
[...]
> Yes, and looking through the specific line in the pmfile that failed, i=
t
> was building util/cpp, which is the first utility in the process to req=
uire
> LLgen, as far as I can tell.  Looks like util/topgen is the only other
> utility that needs LLgen.  I'm still grepping through the other files.

Yeah, cgg, ncgg, ack itself, and in fact every pretty much every app that=

wants to parse text uses LLgen. ast and cjhj really like LLgen.

> So what flag needs to be added to the pmfiles to specify the location f=
or
> LLgen?  (And it is possible one might wish to run different versions of=

> LLgen, plus on some systems it is not possible without root privileges =
to
> install into /usr/local, notably OpenBSD, which has it group and world
> read-execute, but not write).

Currently it has to be on the path.

What I do on the Sourceforge compile farm is to install LLgen into my hom=
e
directory (-DPREFIX=3D$HOME/) and then change my PATH to include $HOME/bi=
n
(PATH=3D$PATH:$HOME/bin) before building the ACK.

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