Re: [Simulavr-devel] kbdgentables

[Joel Sherrill]

Weddington, Eric wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joel Sherrill [mailto:address@hidden 
> > Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 11:04 AM
> > To: Weddington, Eric
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Simulavr-devel] kbdgentables
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> > Weddington, Eric wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > So I see that the executable kbdgentables(.exe) is 
> > >       
> > installed in /bin.
> >     
> > > What is this used for? Is it used only for the examples? 
> > >       
> > Why is it installed?
> >     
> > >   
> > >       
> > If that is all it is used for and not needed if the examples are
> > installed, then it should be marked "noinst".  This patch does
> > that and I can apply it if you want.
> >     
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> From looking at the automake Makefile it seems that kbdgentables is used (with 
> a couple of .dat data files) to generate a header file, which is dependency of 
> keyboard.cpp, which in turn is part of the libsim library. So to my eyes it 
> should not installed.
>
> However, if these data files (keynumber_to_scancode.dat and 
> xcode_to_keynumber.dat) never change, hence the header file never changes, then 
> why don't we just check in the generated header file and be done with it? Why 
> continue to build the generator program kbdgentables.exe?
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>   
I had similarly wondered about the output of swig.  Does it ever
change?

These look like things that there should be a "--enable-maintainer-mode"
added and the results checked in and not generated as part of a "normal"
build.
> Eric Weddington
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