On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Enrico Kochon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Enrico! > A few weeks passed since I tried to compile and so on, however I found > it not very convinient, as all the libs where to get installed before > development was possible. This can be an issue first, although it should be possible to work around by appropriate settings of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and friends. This isn't documented anywhere, however. Since development mostly changes a single library only, I could so far live with doing a make install for that single library once in a while (although it is true that you lose some seconds each compile-debug cycle). > Imho, it should be more lightweight. Perhaps > only one local development directory should suffice. These deployment > stuff (automake etc.) is great for making packages for distribution, but > it shouldnt be necessary in this scale for fast development. It is also great for platform-independence, dependency checking, etc. ... and as an alternative you could use the CMake based build, which feels a bit faster then the autotools build. I think the main issue here is not necessarily the build system (you'll need one to handle a moderately complex source tree and I believe most would find it convenient). The issue is maybe the source structure and how we build all those shared libs and as a result that things tend to work better when installed correctly. > I would like to contribute, however this barrier hinders me a lot. > Sorry for my complain, I want to know, which opinion the others have. If > there were a consense, I would like to try a lightweight > build-environment. This discussion is not about tools, only about > manageability. I believe what would suffice is a shell-script that creates a proper environment by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PYTHONPATH and maybe one or two others, then executing whatever test program or script you want to run. Basically just a thin wrapper that'll execute whatever is passed into it in a fitting environment. If you could come up with something like that, that would be much appreciated by a couple of people I talked to lately :-). Kai _______________________________________________ Adonthell-devel mailing list Adonthell-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/adonthell-devel