[Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread EBo
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:34:38 +0200, Michael Haberler wrote: > ... > > LinuxCNC isnt the only project in this situation; some are developing > cmake build instructions in parallel while leaving the existing > autoconf stuff in place until the new way stabilizes. I've had a lot of problems in the pas

Re: [Emc-developers] master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS

2012-09-06 Thread Anders Wallin
> Hi all, > The recent redis addition has broken the build for me on 64-bit > 12.04LTS. Hmm, it now strangely seems that these problems have disappeared.. not sure why. However I need this trivial fix on my laptop 12.04LTS (it seems on my desktop 12.04LTS I don't need it??): $ git diff 8db111 dif

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread Lars Segerlund
I have experience with it, it's just another case of let's reiinvent the build system, I do not wish to air my opinion of it publicly, since I would be sued for defamation What's wrong with autoconf & friends ? They are cross platform, have few dependencies and can do everything Anyh

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread EBo
Fair enough. I thought the current discussion concerned moving away from autoconf and friends. Personally I have a lot more experience and comfort with autoconf, automake, and libtools. Some people hate them, and the whole jam thing is a lot more portable (at least from my experience). So I

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread Eric Keller
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:17 AM, EBo wrote: > Fair enough. I thought the current discussion concerned moving away > from autoconf and friends. Personally I have a lot more experience and > comfort with autoconf, automake, and libtools. > I do too, at least they tell you what is going on and you

Re: [Emc-developers] master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS

2012-09-06 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 06.09.2012 um 12:18 schrieb Anders Wallin: >> Hi all, >> The recent redis addition has broken the build for me on 64-bit >> 12.04LTS. > > Hmm, it now strangely seems that these problems have disappeared.. not sure > why. > However I need this trivial fix on my laptop 12.04LTS (it seems on my

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread Michael Haberler
Am 06.09.2012 um 13:17 schrieb EBo: > Fair enough. I thought the current discussion concerned moving away > from autoconf and friends. Personally I have a lot more experience and > comfort with autoconf, automake, and libtools. Some people hate them, > and the whole jam thing is a lot more

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On Sep 6, 2012, at 12:53 , Michael Haberler wrote: > > Am 06.09.2012 um 13:17 schrieb EBo: > >> Fair enough. I thought the current discussion concerned moving away >> from autoconf and friends. Personally I have a lot more experience and >> comfort with autoconf, automake, and libtools. Som

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread Kent A. Reed
On 9/6/2012 2:53 PM, Michael Haberler wrote: > A different issue with autoconf is that writing working feature test macros > is outright pathetic, and IMO the folks who came up with the idea of using m4 > for this purpose should be summarily shot. But then this isnt all that > frequent so one ca

Re: [Emc-developers] build system [was: master sim+rip build on 64-bit 12.04LTS]

2012-09-06 Thread Pavel Shramov
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 01:05:34PM +0200, Lars Segerlund wrote: > I have experience with it, it's just another case of let's reiinvent > the build system, I do not wish to air my opinion of it publicly, > since I would be sued for defamation +1 here, jam is awful > What's wrong with autoco

[Emc-developers] Newbie trouble: emcrsh doesn't run...

2012-09-06 Thread roger
Hello again! Tried to follow the content of the emcrsh-link, http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Emcrsh at the wikipages recently. It didn't pop up any 5007-port to connect my telnet-session to as I hoped. I tried to modify a few .hal-files attached to the emcprojects in the distribution but