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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] splitting BUILD
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:47:21 +0100

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:39:18PM +0100, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 13:31:53 +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:40:25PM +0100, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 21:57:46 -0800, Andrew wrote:
> > > > Are we decided on:
> > > > *BUILD splits to:
> > > > COMPILE (everything before prepare_install
> > >
> > > I don't like the name COMPILE since a spell may need to use it but never
> > > do any compilation. Calling this file BUILD instead is more apt in my
> > > opinion. Not very important though.
> >
> > If we would call it BUILD we'd have to split every single BUILD file in
> > the grimoire into the new files at once, not a change i'd like to make.
> > I agree that BUILD would be a better name though. We could start calling
> > it COMPILE with the plan to eventually rename it to BUILD when the
> > transition to the new system is done in most of the grimoire.
>
> But wouldn't the build system support both ways initially? If so then I
> think it should be quite possible to run BUILD instead of COMPILE. Just
> don't use "if [ -x $SCRIPT_DIRECTORY/BUILD ] ; then old_system ; else
> new_system ; fi"

The problem is that after the new BUILD/COMPILE prepare_install and
INSTALL are run, not sure what effect that would have if BUILD does
everything already.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Sourcemage GNU/Linux developer
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