[Gambas-user] Autoconf tools question

[M0E Lnx]

Will do as soon as I get a chance

What are the chances of a g2 project to work under g3?




On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at ...626...> wrote:
> Le Thursday 28 August 2008 16:21:00 M0E Lnx, vous avez écrit :
>> Any way to test this in gambas2 yet?
>>
>> my app is written in g2
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at ...626...>
> wrote:
>> > Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:54:07 M0E Lnx, vous avez écrit :
>> >> I'm willing to test (pretty much all I can do) but I do appreciate you
>> >> guys considering it. I suposse many people will write their
>> >> appliactions in gambas and will need to depend on something else... so
>> >> it'll help to have it run checks for those dependancies as well. Even
>> >> if it means specifying them by name (each developer should know what
>> >> his/her app depends on)
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at ...1963....>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >> > Le Wednesday 27 August 2008 10:45:13 Benoit Minisini, vous avez écrit :
>> >> >> On mardi 19 août 2008, M0E Lnx wrote:
>> >> >> > I've gotten my application to package with the autoconf tools
>> >> >> > creator from the IDE (very nice (in version 2.8 the DESTDIR is
>> >> >> > supported)). I have a question
>> >> >> > How can I make these scripts run additional tests?.
>> >> >> > My application for instance uses other things such as Python,
>> >> >> > CMake... etc, how can I make the configure script check for these
>> >> >> > too?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Any help is appreciated
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Thanks
>> >
>> > You can find some preliminary work on the 3.0 branch.
>> >
>> > You can add extra tests (you need to know how configure script work (see
>> > autoconf.automake docs)). Your script will be add at the end of the
>> > configure script.
>> >
>> > See http://gambas.svn.sourceforge.net/gambas/?rev=1520&view=rev
>> >
>> > ++
>> >
>
> I can put this in stable branch if benoit agrees, but as it's pretty untested,
> i prefer if you can test this feature i.e. install G3, just create a dummy
> project, then create a package with autotools, and add your test !
>
> So you axtract the dummy package and run ./configure script.
>
> Try all these steps, so send your comments, feature missing, the bugs found.
> If it's pretty bugfree and useful them it will be backported for the next 2.x
> release.
>
> Regards,
>
>
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