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Re: IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread John R. Sheets
On May 31, 2000, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex> Is there already an expand_make_variable() type function? > > Yes. You can use variable_value_as_list in automake to do this. But > really you'll want to have direct suppo

Re: Best way of dealing with program-generated files?

2000-05-31 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Bjorn, On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 11:22:43PM -0400, Bjorn Wennberg wrote: > Since different idl-compilers breaks the basename of the idl-file > in both a) adding a suffix to the filename and b) setting a new > extention to the file I needed some means of specifying the modifiers. > Here is the al

Re: Best way of dealing with program-generated files?

2000-05-31 Thread Bjorn Wennberg
Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "Diego" == Diego Sevilla Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Diego> IDL_DEPS(anyfile.idl) > > There was a discussion on this on the automake list in the past. > I don't remember the outcome. > > I think the best approach would be to have an autoc

Re: IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Alex, On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 07:01:52PM +0100, Alex Hornby wrote: > Apart from the obvious difficultly of multi ORB setup etc, to keep > clients small it is often desirable to put the IDL client stubs in a > library, keeping the server stubs in the server executable. Why wouldn't you put the

CVS Automake prerequisites?

2000-05-31 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I'm making the switch to CVS Automake. Can someone please tell me what the prerequisite software is? Do I need CVS Autoconf? Anything else? I'm getting errors such as the following: $ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c ch

Re: IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Alex Hornby
Tom Tromey writes: > > "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alex> Is there already an expand_make_variable() type function? > > Yes. You can use variable_value_as_list in automake to do this. But > really you'll want to have direct support for IDL in automake, so tha

Re: IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> Is there already an expand_make_variable() type function? Yes. You can use variable_value_as_list in automake to do this. But really you'll want to have direct support for IDL in automake, so that IDL files can be listed directly in

Re: IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Alex Hornby
( I've moved this to the automake list only. ) I now have my dependency files being generated in .deps using depcomp. I've used a new filename .deps/$*.Pcpp to hold these. The remaining problem is to get automake to generate include's for them and list them in DEP_FILES. I suspect this will re

Re: IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Diego Sevilla Ruiz
Tom Tromey wrote: > "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> As IDL files use standard C preprocessor syntax for dependent Alex> inclusion, is it not possible to wrap the idl compile in Alex> depcomp? Interesting idea. I thought different IDL compilers generated

Re: IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Tom Tromey
> "Alex" == Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alex> As IDL files use standard C preprocessor syntax for dependent Alex> inclusion, is it not possible to wrap the idl compile in Alex> depcomp? Interesting idea. I thought different IDL compilers generated different output file names, th

IDL dependencies, proposed solution.

2000-05-31 Thread Alex Hornby
As IDL files use standard C preprocessor syntax for dependent inclusion, is it not possible to wrap the idl compile in depcomp? My IDL build rules are already structured as suffix rules, with a small wrapper script around the IDL compiler that uses lockfile(1) to prevent two targets (e.g. client