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Re: [Gnucap-devel] missing info in the models tarballs.


From: nbs_r
Subject: Re: [Gnucap-devel] missing info in the models tarballs.
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:26:42 +0900
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al davis wrote:
On Sunday 25 February 2007 07:59, Stuart Brorson wrote:
2. The libtool tarball is about 3 MB. about 3 times the size of
the gnucap basic tarball. (core + enough plugins to be useful)
It contains lots of stuff for lots of systems.
I gotta agree with the chorus of libtool advocates.  It will make your
life easier.   Also, what the big deal about a 3MB tarball if you
already require g++ to build Gnucap & it's plug-ins?
It creates a RUN TIME dependency for something that should 
be determined pre-build, that can be determined without it,
and doesn't completely solve the problem.
I think libtool is not really necessary. A simple platform-dependent 
wrapper script would do fine. There are not so many options required for 
 building plugins after all (few dependencies (?), no site-dependent 
configuration). What is necessary is compiler/linker invocation and this 
can be hardcoded or, as David proposed, dumped to the file at build-time 
configuration of gnucap itself.
Still, the most reliable option would be to ship gnucap with a model 
interpreter/vm or at least an embedded compiler. Sites without or with 
incomplete development tools are not that uncommon.
\R.






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