I started to transform the recursive ('SUBDIRS') Makefile.am builds into 'include' statements (see 'info automake' chapter 7.3). The idea behind this is to make rebuilds much faster and more sane and utilize a distcc cluster much better. The rationale about is, that a distcc build here will waste about 50% of its time in doing serialized subdir builds in the plugin folder and even minimal changes at the code will cause a time consuming full subdirs traversal.
You can view get the code from my 'automake_nosubdir' branch: http://www.pipapo.org/gitweb?p=cinelerra/ct;a=shortlog;h=automake_nonsubdir This is still work on progress I want to announce it early, maybe someone wants to help me with that. Some Notes: * the work is done on top of my 'cinelerra/ct' branch but I plan to backport it to the SVN version when the other Developers agree. I think this is moderate intrusive since it is more a mechanic transformation than much coding effort (well still some work) and it won't introduce incompatibilities/merge problems with upstream sice we use our own build system anyway. The benefits should outweigth the little disribution in merging this. * some manual (clean-something:) make targets are commented out, should be fixed soemhow * I only did *works-for-me* efforts so far, that is: + buildinfo will be unconditionally recreated + works only --with-external-ffmpeg (I didnt decided yet if to keep SUBDIRS for ffmpeg or also to turn it into a include) When someone wants to fix this issues, just go on and send me patches they are of lower priority to me I would only work at last on them when I am back (see below). * It generates one big fat Makefile (which is good in this case, only one make instance which will have a broad insight over the whole project) * It builds all objects in $(top_builddir) if you don't do of-dir builds then this might look strange, but should be no problem. When anyone finds out how to build objects in subdirs beyond $(top_builddir) I would be glad to integrate his patches (while I think this is not needed) Whats left to do: I just started to transform the themes and plugins will be next; guicast isn't yet done. The guicast transformation is simple if someone want to do it, just drop me a note. I will work the next days on the plugins dir. If someone wants to (promise to) help in the plugins dir please tell me ASAP then we can coodinate work (like I do all plungins starting with letter 'a' or such). There is a small synconization problem since I will be out of office for about 1-2 weeks from saturday on, I don't know if I will be able to connect to the internet, but I take my laptop with me an work little bit on the code when time permits. I'll be reachable via email or on IRC until tomorrow (friday) late evening (GMT). When you want to help on this, either use git to keep your changes or just send me patches, but please keep them back until I am back from my travel, else the chances that I oversee some emails are high. Alternatively you can add information about your patches on my wiki (http://www.pipapo.org/pipawiki/Cinelerra/GitBranches) this will be persistent and not be lost. Christian _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra