Am Dienstag, 12. April 2005 05:45 schrieb James Berry:
> On Apr 11, 2005, at 7:31 AM, Axel Weiß wrote:
> > James, did you already develop a strategy for eliminating
> > runConfigure?
>
> Hi Axel,
>
> Sorry the for the delay in replying, I've been out of town for a day.
>
> Yes. I've got prototype autoconf infrastructure that eliminates both
> runConfigure and the need for XERCESROOT (as least as far as the
> build and test infrastructure is concerned). The options for
> runConfigure are sniffed into reasonable defaults by default; they
> can be overridden by --with and --without. So I think your comments
> are completely inline.
>
> This code is due to be checked into just as soon as we switch to svn
> and can start a broader reorganization of things. That seems to be
> held up by apache infrastructure at the moment, but hopefully we'll
> break it free soon.
>
> The other major task in supporting the broad variety of platforms is
> to refactor the Platform support, as well as write additional
> autoconfig test for various bits of functionality.
>
> See an earlier status email I sent on this subject (Feb 24), another
> email I sent regarding some autoconf thoughts (Feb 17), and our
> general release 3.x plan (releases_plan.html document in cvs -- I
> guess it never made it to the site).
Hi James,
indeed, your thoughts about re-structuring seem very promising. However,
I'd like to add another notion related to compililation: why gets all
the platform-specific stuff for *all* platforms compiled (and linked
into the library) when building for a particular platform? I believe
that it is possible and much more efficient to only compile the
platform-related sources belonging to the target, and skip compiling the
others. This could be managed by configure/Makefile.
Just an idea...
> Your thoughts, comments and help are all welcome. Hopefully we'll get
> the svn stuff out of the way relatively soon so we can more readily
> begin our 3.x migration.
James, would you like to send me what you have done so far?
Axel
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