Hi,
I've (locally for the moment) added support for autoconf in the pgserver
module. The idea is the following :
- the kernel-like configuration system is still here to define "profiles",
in order to specify what goes in the server
- an autoconf/automake system handles what can be detected automatically
(SDL, ncurses,...) and provides additional services :
* ability to compile different profiles in different compilation
directories, which all refer to a unique source directory
* automatic dependency tracking
* archive generation,...
How it will be usable once committed :
- checkout the module from CVS
- run the ./autogen.sh script _once_. This script sets up the
autoconf/automake environment for a developper. It won't be used for
packages that are distributed out of CVS.
- run ./configure --with-config=<your favorite config>
- run make
That's it. In addition to the standard automake targets, I've added the
following :
make config
make menuconfig
...which invoke the configuration editor on the config specified in the
--with-config option.
To compile in a separate directory :
1. eventually make distclean in the source directory if you have compiled
in it. It is not possible to compile in multiple directories *and* in the
source tree.
2. create a compilation directory anywhere
3. in this dir, run /path/to/configure --with-config=<config>
4. run make
This will create a directory tree similar to the one containing the sources,
but which will hold only object and config-specific files.
For cross-compilation (I still have to experiment on that), the idea is to
use something like :
CC=m68k-pic-coff-gcc LD=... ./configure
I'm eager to hear your comments about this (at least the idea, for the
moment), and I'm sure I'll have lots of nice remarks once it will be
discovered that it breaks the compilation once it will be committed in CVS
:-)
Stay tuned for more information !
Fr�d�ric
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Software Engineer Lausanne - Switzerland
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