Hi, On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Kenneth Heafield <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Moses, > > The root and scripts builds are now integrated into one bjam > build. If you wish to install scripts (formerly make release), use > --install-scripts=/path/to/directory . What formerly involved editing > the Makefile to set the path to giza is now a command line option > --with-giza=/path/to/giza. If you miss timestamped scripts releases, > add --git to tag the directory name with the current git revision.
Very nice. This editing-by-hand was quite ugly. As it took me a few try to figure out how the new compilation works, here are my notes about it: 1/ apparently there is no --prefix option anymore? It seems one must install with --install=/my/prefix/bin instead. Also you'll note that the bin/ must be given. I first made the mistake of thinking --install is equivalent to --prefix and I ended up with binaries in the prefix's root. Maybe I missed another option, but it looks like a small loss of usability (--prefix is quite one of the most used feature of Makefile). 2/ --with-xmlrpc-c does not need anymore the xmlrpc-c-config binary path, but the prefix where it is installed. This is good! 3/ The harder was to figure out how to add link flags (LDFLAGS in Makefile). For instance as I use a prefix which is not system-wide, I wanted to add the -l,rpath for finding the lib in runtime. While make would work like: LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath=/my/prefix/lib" ./configure [other options] Here, we must do: ./bjam linkflags='-Wl,-rpath=/my/prefix/lib' [other options] 4/ It seems that now multi-thread is the default. Why not, I guess that's for the best (I would have compiled it anyway). 5/ Finally I don't know if this has changed with this commit or slightly before, but I see now Boost must be compiled with 2 additional libraries, Compile Options and Unit Test: --with-libraries=thread,program_options,test I guess that most people don't see this (I imagine that distrib anyway compile everything). I wonder in particular if this is a good idea to have the unit test module compiled as a default option in Moses. Shouldn't it be only for a debug mode? Thanks. Jehan > ./regenerate-makefiles.sh will nag you to use bjam instead. You > may still use autotools for the main build for now, but autotools can no > longer build scripts. > > Run ./bjam --help for documentation on building Moses with bjam. > > Kenneth > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
