On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:46 PM Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at>
wrote:
> While looking through the native samples I noticed that
>
> - in the Windows branch there are makefiles. Are these makefiles still
> needed now that we use CMake?
>
> The makefiles are not used for the build, the makefiles are part of the
sample, allowing the user to build them once they are installed on their
system.
>
> -
> - in the Unix branch there are no statements comparable to the windows
> branch that direct the install, which might be the reason why on Unix
> native sample binaries are wrongfully placed into the bin and lib
> directories. Not really knowing CMake it looks like adding the Windows
> installation statements to the Unix branch would be possible?
>
> If it's possible for Windows, then yes it is possible for Unix as well. It
probably should be done.
>
> - If so, wouldn't it make sense to fold the native samples for Windows
> and Unix and have a single CMakeLists.txt to drive the compilation and
> installation of the native samples?
>
> No, platform specific branches should be kept separate. What applies to
one platform doesn't necessarily apply to the others.
>
> - on Unix (Linux) the non native samples currently get installed to
> "@/share/ooRexx" rather than into "@/share/ooRexx/samples", where "@" would
> be "/usr" on Ubuntu. Should that be corrected?
>
> Probably. For Unix, this is currently defined as this:
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}.
The doc location variable also doesn't appear to be defined.
>
> -
> - Also, it seems that nowadays user installed applications should go
> into "/usr/local" instead? If so, should that be corrected or is this
> driven by CMake and should be left to it therefore?
> - the Unix definitions do not create/install the pdf documetnation
> files; would it make sense to install them on Unix too, if the
> documentation pdfs are present? If so, where should they be looked for and
> where should they be installed to on Unix, maybe to "@/ share/ooRexx/doc"?
>
> It probably would make sense to include these.
>
>
> So what do you say?
>
> ---rony
>
>
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