On Oct 2, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
William Kyngesburye wrote:
I sortof understand this. Until you can work out the necessary
changes (if you decide to), how about some minimal changes to the the
extension compilation working?
Unfortunately, use of the "get it working for now" approach is
responsible for much of the current mess. I'd rather take the
opportunity to improve matters than to make them worse.
OK. I guess I'm just being a bit impatient.
So, you're working on this now? ;) Or will get to it? I think this
can greatly simplify Benjamin's GEM, as well as allow external
"extension" building.
- grass.make.in: add at end:
ifdef INST_XTN
include $(MODULE_TOPDIR)/include/Make/Install_xtn.make
endif
and have a new Install_xtn.make fragment. This is just a trimmed
version of the main makefile with just install targets and any
unnecessary bits removed. It expects INST_DIR_XTN to be set in the
make command.
I'm not sure that this needs to be conditionalised. If there are parts
of the top-level Makefile which might be useful to extensions, they
should be moved into one of the *.make files (or a new file).
In general, the *.make files should define as much as possible
unconditionally, and leave it up to either individual Makefiles or the
user to decide what actually gets used.
Just to make sure: the main makefile's install target will override
that makefile frag's install target, in a normal build, since the
main makefile defines it after this frag is included?
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