Hi all, for the last 2 days I had been working on some more non-java building stuff. In order to use the Thrift compiler, which is not available as pre-compiled binary for anything but windows, I added a “thrift” module to the tools directory. As Thrift needs boost, I moved the boost module from the plc4cpp module to the tools module.
I would like to add a new profile “with-proxy” that generates builds all thrift related modules if enabled. The reason is that I don’t want to force the higher complexity of building to the casual drive-by user. So it should be possible to checkout plc4x and run a simple “mvn install” without any problems. This is absolutely no problem at all. The problem I am having is that in this case is Boost for example. This is needed by modules activated by “with-cpp” as well as “with-proxy”. Unfortunately I can’t define profiles to be active if one of a list of profiles is active (At least I haven’t found out yet … perhaps there’s a maven extension that allows that … will investigate). The current “solution” is to not activate the profiles via “-P with-cpp” but to set a property and to have the profiles activate themselves if a property is set. This would result in something like “mvn -Dprofile.with-cpp -Dprofile.with-proxy install”. This would allow enabling the boost build if either or both of the properties “profile.with-cpp” or “profile.with-proxy” is set. What do you think? Chris
