Hi Gaby,
I'm sorry if I steal your precious time by my stupid questions...
On 08/02/2006 04:58 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
| I don't see a difference between
|
| > (1) modify configure.ac.pamphlet
| > (2) run ./build-setup.sh
|
| and my suggested
|
| modify configure.ac.pamphlet
| make configure
"make" means that there is a Makefile that is used to make "configure".
There isn't. Any makefile must be generated at configure time when
building Axiom. I know that is not what the current system does;
but it is a bug -- it got me several times.
That is your point of view and years of experience. I will trust you in
setting up Autotools support for Axiom, since for now that is more
important then sticking to pamphlet style. That you are going to
document everything in some form is clear to me.
But still. I assumed that we distribute the sources with configure and
an initial Makefile. That would be generated first by you via
notangle configure.ac.pamphlet > configure.ac
autoconf configure.ac > configure
./configure
svn commit configure
svn commit Makefile
That Makefile would contain code to generate "configure". So it
basically contains your "build-setup.sh" script.
If I am an ordinary user, I start with ./configure && make.
If I am more advanced and change some stuff in configure.ac.pamphlet,
I start with "./configure" to make sure that I have "noweb" and then
re-iterate via "make configure && ./configure". I really cannot see a
problem with that.
| I know that "make" checks whether the "Makefile" is as new as it could
| be. But does it check whether there is Makefile.in or Makefile.am and
| re-generates the Makefile from that???
No. Makefile.in usually contains variables that need to be
substituted. Makefile.am is even at higher level. You need
Automake. Now, when you have the full Autotools in place, if you
modify Makefile.am or configure.ac and you say "make", there usually
is a dectection and autoconf is run to regenerate
But I never modify Makefile.am or configure.ac. Only the corresponding
pamphlet files. So there clearly there is a target like
%: %.pamphlet
notangle $< > $@
or something the like.
Ralf
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