On Wednesday 10 October 2001 02:39 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, I'm about to start in on the skeleton for the variable code. One of > the big intentions here is that variable types can be loaded in on the > fly. At the moment I'm considering throwing each variable type into its > own shareable library, which means we need runtime shareable library > support, which means we need platform-specific code. Wheee. > > Anyone care to teach configure.pl how to handle this? I'm thinking > something like the hints file for a platform defining a filename for the > platform-specific code (with a fallback to "$^O.c") that it renames to > platform.c, or something like that, with an empty default.c that's used > instead.
We have a collection of these. You might be better off with architecture directories (that match $^O, maybe?) and a generic fallback. You can process and copy into the main directory. > > This also means we're going to need to handle building shareable > libraries, which is an interesting trick to do cross-platform. I think > it's also time to overhaul the makefile builder. Luckily we do *not* need > anything near as convoluted as MakeMaker, which is a good thing. > > Dan > > --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- > Dan Sugalski even samurai > [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even > teddy bears get drunk -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
