Re: [pooma-dev] Re: pooma-dev Digest 23 Jun 2003 12:57:44 -0000 Issue 243

[Richard Guenther]

On 23 Jun 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 07:55, Richard Guenther wrote:
> > On 23 Jun 2003, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >
> > > Richard --
> > >
> > > I think it would be great to overhaul the POOMA build system to use
> > > autoconf and more traditional makefiles.  There is no real harm if we
> > > break things on a few platforms; they can get put back together.
> > >
> > > I think it's even OK to assume GNU Make if that makes things simpler.
> >
> > Even if we break application Makefiles that include the installed pooma
> > suite files with its rules?
>
> Yes, I think it's OK if we break old application Makefiles.
>
> We will of course need to fix the documentation when we do that.
>
> We don't have time to do this work internally, but if it were something
> that you wanted to work on, I'd be supportive.  We should also see what
> Jeffrey has to say on the topic.

Ok, the things I am able to spent time on are:
- use autoconf/automake/libtool to get rid of current build system
- make build/install/dist work for the targets I have access to and I care
  about (linux gcc/icc, with and without cheetah for the moment)
- update the docs
- I probably can give a hand if other people need to do fixes for other
  targets/compilers

In this process we're going to loose a lot of the current configure
options, also (initially) support for tau, paws, etc. (but cheetah).

If more people like to work on this, this can be done on a branch, if not,
I can try to do this locally in a bk repository.

Richard.