On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:46:55 -0500 (EST), Andrew Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > On Mon 03 Jan 2005 20:52, Andrew Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > > > > > In order to get in sync, I rebuilt config_h.SH with metaconfig, and > > > > the content was the same, but reshuffled (reordered) > > > > > > > > This cause HAS_QUAD to be too far down and also LONGLONG to be used > > > > before defined > > > > > > If I recall correctly, the dependencies in the metaconfig units control > > > the ordering in Configure, but not the ordering in config_h.SH. The > > > ordering in config_h.SH, I believe, is determined by a simple > > > alphabetical ordering of the units. That's what the a_dvisory/ > > > directory is for. I think there are some more details in the > > > metaconfig/README file. > > > > Sounds reasonable, except for the fact that I somehow don't see how and > > where a_dvisory is used, if used at all > > It's not explicitly used -- it's just a name that sorts near the > beginning. To be more explicit: when the sorting takes place, > the directory name is included along with the unit name, so > that > a_dvisory/multiarch.U > sorts before > compline/byteorder.U. > > > l1:/pro/3gl/CPAN/metaconfig/U 117 > grep a_dvisory * > > README:a_dvisory/ > > README: The a_dvisory/ directory, then, is a place to put units that > > need > > Yup, that's the only place it's documented. > > > I'm contemplating some sort of tsort algorithm for config_h.SH sorting > > Yes, something like that would be appropriate -- or use the sorting > already determined by metaconfig for the shell portions of the units. As > it says in README, however, > > This could be fixed, I suppose, but it wasn't trivial the one > time I looked. Just to complete this track, it's now solved with Porting/config_h.pl # metaconfig -m # perl Porting/config_h.pl -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-qa@perl.org
