Re: GNU APL build system changes

[Chris Moller]

    Works as well on Fedora release 33, Linux
      5.10.17-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP
      
      I don't know if it's significant, but I used git clone to pull
      down the source code for 1449 and that results in a ./configure
      message of:
      
    
> *** current directory is not a svn
>         checkout: keeping old buildtag
>     
    
      and an `apl --version` of 
      
    
> BUILDTAG:
>       ---------
>           Project:        GNU APL
>           Version / SVN:  1.8 / 1410M
>           Build Date:     2021-01-19 19:59:14 UTC
>           Build OS:       Linux 4.15.0-123-generic
>         x86_64
>           config.status:  '--enable-maintainer-mode'
>         'DEVELOP_WANTED=yes'
>           Archive SVN:    1406
>

On 3/27/21 1:14 PM, Blake McBride wrote:

Builds fine on my 64-bit LinuxMint 19.3 box.

Thanks!

Blake

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 12:04 PM Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <mail@jürgen-sauermann.de> wrote:

Hi,

as some of you have noticed, I made some changes to the GNU APL build system.

Some of these changes were simplifications of the build system (some automatically
generated .cc and .hh files like configure_args.cc are gone for good), while other changes
 were needed to support Autoconf VPATH builds. Also all files generated by ./configure
now stored in the top-level directory so that the subdirectory src (which is shared by all
VPATH builds) is no longer muddied with ./configure results.

The purpose of VPATH builds is to be able to build several ./configure variants in
parallel. Different VPATH builds are needed to discover build problems, in particular with
rarely used ./configure variants before these problems  are committed to the savannah
SVN server.

There could still be glitches in the new build structure, so please keep reporting
them.

SVN 1449.

Best Regards,
Jürgen

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