Re: [wxCode-users] Executing programs with Bakefile

[Joseph B. <jb...@um...>]

I've applied your suggestions and committed them to CVS.

Thanks again!

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Francesco Montorsi wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Joseph Blough wrote:
>> The bakefile is databaselayer.bkl at
>> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wxcode/wxCode/components/databaselayer/build/databaselayer.bkl 
> yes; sorry I forgot to specify the -d flag in cvs update... now I see the 
> files
>
>
>> Now that I think about it more, maybe the tests_firebird.cpp file should be 
>> added to CVS (which would eliminate the issue completely).  The main reason 
>> it isn't in CVS is that everything I've read indicates that it's best to 
>> leave script generated files out of the source control system. 
> generally I agree, even if I do an exception for my generated makefiles which 
> I do keep in CVS... but that's not required.
>
>
>> Unfortunately, it this situation is requires the user to have cxxtest 
>> installed.
> In this case assing tests_firebird.cpp to the CVS seems to be a good choice 
> since AFAIK cxxtest is not very common on user's workstations...
>
>
>
>> Thanks for looking at this!
> I have two little advices looking at your BKL:
>
> 1) many settings are repetead in the <lib> and <dll> targets of the same 
> database source; this means that when you want to change something you need 
> to do it twice... a better approach could be declaring a <template> from 
> which your <lib> and <dll> derive.
>
> 2) instead of the current definition of MSVC6_MERGED_TARGETS I would use:
>
>    <set var="MSVC6PRJ_MERGED_TARGETS">
>        databaselayer_postgresql=databaselayer_postgresql_lib+databaselayer_postgresql_dll
>        databaselayer_mysql=databaselayer_mysql_lib+databaselayer_mysql_dll
>        databaselayer_firebird=databaselayer_firebird_lib+databaselayer_firebird_dll
>        databaselayer_sqlite=databaselayer_sqlite_lib+databaselayer_sqlite_dll
>    </set>
>
> which make msvc6prj nicer ;)
>
>
>
>> I'll try to get wxspellchecker and shortcutpanel under bakefiles also after 
>> the next databaselayer release.
> Good !
> I think it will help users who want to try out wxcode components.
> Please let me know if you find something is missing from 
> wxcode\build\bakefiles\readme.txt and from 
> wxcode\build\bakefiles\empty.bkl.template...
>
>
> Francesco Montorsi
>
>
>
>
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Francesco Montorsi wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Joseph Blough wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've almost got the databaselayer component working with Bakefile, but 
>>>> I'm having problems running the perl script that generates the unit 
>>>> tests. The line that needs to be run is:
>>>> 
>>>> cxxtestgen.pl -o tests_firebird.cpp MyTest.h
>>>> 
>>>> and I tried wrapping it in an action module like
>>>>
>>>>   <action id="tests_firebird.cpp">
>>>>     <command>cxxtestgen.pl -o tests_firebird.cpp MyTest.h</command>
>>>>   </action>
>>> 
>>> yes, this is how to do it; the only suspect thing is the id of the 
>>> <action> tag: in this way it would create a target in makefiles named 
>>> "tests_firebird.cpp"; I think this could give some problem to bakefile... 
>>> see below
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> but when I try to call the target through
>>>>
>>>>   <depends>tests_firebird.cpp</depends>
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure to understand what do you mean by "I try to call the target 
>>> through": where did you put that <depends> tag ?
>>> I suggest you to use the <depends-on-file> tag instead.
>>> 
>>> I cannot see any bakefile in the "databaselayer" folder of my wxCode 
>>> repository; if you commit them to the CVS I can give you more details...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> the following is spit out by GNU make
>>>> 
>>>> No rule to make target `tests_firebird.cpp'
>>> 
>>> how does your GNU makefile looks like ?
>>> I think the problem is that <action> tag creates a target which is not 
>>> exactly named "tests_firebird.cpp" (probably looks like 
>>> "sub_tests_firebird.cpp").
>>> 
>>> Francesco Montorsi
>>> 
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