On Monday 14 July 2008, Hai Zaar wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Leon Romanovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It will be great if anyone can talk about Scons too. > > I can give a very throughout lecture about Autoconf/Automake and > friends. Is anyone interested? >
You may wish to consult the material and links at: http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Autotools/ One problem with the presentation is that I didn't really show how to do stuff portably using Autoconf. That and I now decided that Autoconf tends to break too often from my taste, and is one gigantic hackish kludge, and decided to convert wholesale to CMake. Regards, Shlomi Fish > >> I'd like to see a meeting about building packages with tools like > >> cmake. I know that the basic steps include > >> wget something > >> tar something > >> cd somewhere > >> cmake // i have no idea what this does > >> make // what does this do? > >> sudo make install // what really goes on here? > >> > >> It would be nice to analize the file system before and after each > >> step, like this: > >> > >> wget something // Downloaded file. There is now a new file on the > >> filesystem in the current directory > >> tar something // Uncompresses archive. There is now a new directory, > >> as a child of the current directory. It is full of files. > >> cd somewhere // Move to new directory > >> cmake // What is written in this step? Where? If I have to do it > >> again, what must be erased first? > >> make // What does this do? What does it write? > >> sudo make install // Same questions as above. > >> > >> I could bring a laptop with a fresh Kubuntu install in a 10 GB > >> partition for testing. The laptop has VGA out and wifi. > >> > >> -- > >> Dotan Cohen > >> > >> http://what-is-what.com > >> http://gibberish.co.il > >> × -×'-×'-×"-×"-ו-×–-×—-ט-×™-ך-×›-ל-× -מ-ן-× > >> -ס-×¢-×£-פ-×¥-צ-ק-ר-×(c)-ת > >> > >> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > >> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Haifux mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > > > > -- > > "Change is inevitable; progress is optional". > > _______________________________________________ > > Haifux mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ I met a guy in the bar, talked to her and she gave me her phone number. _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
