Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> here is a patch that should allow to download the aldor interface files
> at configure time.
>
> Please tell me whether you like it or not. If it is OK, I will modify
> src/aldor/Makefile.in to work with that patch, i.e. assume that the
> aldor files are available at build-time. (Note that if configure finds
> out about any missing prerequisite for the aldor interface, then "make"
> will not be run in src/aldor.)
>
> Ralf
>
I think the patch a few problems:
1) Hardcoding MD5 sums in configure. One is not supposed to modify
configure when merely source files are modified.
2) If there is no md5sum the code would try to download files from
Aldor site even if user has modified files and sums.
3) We should not try to download Aldor files if user is not going
to build Aldor.
4) Introducing network delay in configure (normally configure is
quite fast, but in case of problems network operations
Also, logically it seems better to keep functionality which is
very specific to Aldor (and really not configuring) outside
of configure.
Now, my preferences would be:
1) Make Aldor interface build robustly restartable (so that if some
problem is detected one can just fix the problem and re-run make).
Note: in general our build process should be restartable, but
ATM is not.
2) Keep handling of Aldor files inside aldor subdirectory. If
desired by Aldor user one can call from configure Aldor specific
script (only if such way turns out to be too clumsy I would
add code directly to configure).
--
Waldek Hebisch
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