> Xiao-Feng Li wrote:
>> I highly support to have a Makefile based build system. Thanks for the
>> experiments! Only the nice "-j n" can make it a worth try.
Salikh Zakirov replied:
> Thanks, I will see if I can it make it "more cross-platform", and then
> file a JIRA with a patch.
So, I went ahead and cleaned makefile a little bit, squashing a couple of bugs
on the way, added Apache license boilerplates and uploaded the patch to
HARMONY-4640 '[drlvm][build] Makefiles for building native components of DRLVM'
The build works as a overlay on top of existing build system, as it currently
uses
apr an other 3rd party libraries build by the ant build system. It deploys the
resulting binaries to the same deploy directories, in order to support quick
recompilation cycle if only native files were changed. This dramatically
increases
effectiveness of development work if frequent recompilation are needed,
especially
in the case of moved source files, which requires 'clean' step with the current
build system (~6-7 minutes on my machine), but makefiles allow for an
incremental
recompilation (typicaly ~10-20 seconds).
I've tried makefiles only on Linux/x86, since that is what I have.
The functionality for the cross-platform configuration is designed in the
makefiles,
however, the configuration itself is missing, and I need help from volunteers
to bring
this build system to a fully configured state.
To make the experimentation and contribution to the build system development
easier,
I've set up a git mirror of DRLVM repository on repo.or.cz. Use following
commands to check out the copy
$ git clone git://repo.or.cz/drlvm.git
$ cd drlvm
$ git checkout -b mob origin/mob
The branch 'master' is a pure mirror of SVN, and branch 'mob' contains the
patch with the makefiles.
In order to facilitate easy integration of many patches, anonymous write access
without password
is enabled with mob account [1]. The following command can be used to push
patches to the repository
$ git push ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/srv/git/drlvm.git mob
The only writable branch is 'mob'. Using this anonymously writable branch,
anyone (including non-committers)
can contribute patches, and all modifications will be collected in one place
without having to mail or
upload multitude of patches. It would be easier for me to review patches in
this way as well.
So, if you are interested in having a more efficient and convenient build
system for DRLVM,
please help in porting it to more platforms.
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[1] http://repo.or.cz/mob.html
