Re: GNU APL build system changes

[Chris Moller]

Cool--I just wasn't sure how consistent you wanted the builds to be across download mechanisms.  It's awkward that git doesn't directly support a straight-forward version-number mechanism that could inherit SVN revision numbers--a ridiculous-number-of-digits SHA1 string isn't terribly convenient.

On 3/27/21 3:00 PM, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann wrote:

Hi Chris,


checkout directory.



This should be fixed now.

Best Regards,
Jürgen


On 3/27/21 6:54 PM, Chris Moller wrote:

it is generally OK to get "*** current directory is not a svn checkout: keeping old buildtag" if you fetch GNU APL with anything other than SVN, e.g. with git clone or by unpacking a tar file. At least as long as you don't switch back-and-forth between SVN and git with the same However, the fallback file that was used below was incorrect because I had forgotten to "git add" the buildtag.hh (typical mistake of SVN users where this is automatic). Therefore you got your own last buildtag (*1410M* from the savannah SVN) instead of my last buildtag (*17930*).

Works as well on Fedora release 33, Linux 5.10.17-100.fc32.x86_64 #1 SMP



    *** 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:

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:

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 <mailto:mail@j%C3%BCrgen-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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