[Gambas-user] Pre-release of Gambas 3.8.1

[Sebastian Kulesz]

I'm gonna chime in and use Bruce's comment to say something i've been
thinking of lately. Some of you may remember, I was once working on porting
the build system Gambas uses from automake to Cmake. The work i did was
left stalled mostly because managing and merging the changes in trunk while
I was working on a different tree was impossible in SVN. Once (if?) Gambas
moves to Git, using a branch to further develop this project would be much,
much easier than it was.

Regarding Bruce's problem, the move to Cmake would make building an
equivalent to an autotools package as simple as adding a CMakeLists.txt to
the project root. Moreover, Gambas does not need to "./configure" a source
tree, as it does not have to look for headers or libraries to include, and
resolve their paths.

I just wanted to say that, to add a reason to move the development of
Gambas to a Git repository.

If you want to skip the autotools package entirely, consider adding a
Makefile to the root of the project. This would be easier to maintain,
easier to customize, and to create a release you would just need to create
a source archive. You can use this one [0] as an example, i'm using it
currently to create releases for my project.

Sorry for making so much noise. I know i didn't solve the original problem
you are having, but i just wanted to mention that there are radical
solutions that would bring a lot of advantages to the project. ;)

[0]
https://github.com/sebikul/mundus/blob/0e0e9c3644e46b3a17e521da29f4b2fc4fd09b20/Makefile

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:21 PM, adamnt42 at ...626... <adamnt42 at ...626...>
wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 02:46:49 +0200
> Benoît Minisini <gambas at ...1...> wrote:
>
> > Le 03/09/2015 01:57, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > As usual, here is a pre-release package of Gambas 3.8.1 at:
> > >
> > >
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gambas/files/gambas3/gambas3-3.8.1.tar.bz2/download
> > >
> > > Please test it if possible, and report any problem before I make the
> > > release official.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> >
> > The list of bug fixes is available now at
> > http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/doc/release/3.8.1
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Benoît Minisini
> >
> There is a problem with the Packager for autotools.  I am still trying to
> figure out whether it is something in the
> Package.module:MakeAutotoolsPackage method or in one of the data/install/
> template files. Essentially even though the "COMPONENT_build" AC_SUBST
> seems to be set correctly (to '1') the "COMPONENT_name" AC_SUBST is not
> being set.
>
> This happens as far back as the ./configure stage as per config.log
> excerpt below:
>
> ## ----------------- ##
> ## Output variables. ##
> ## ----------------- ##
>
> ACLOCAL='${SHELL} /home/bb/paddys-hill-workarea/horseUtil-0.0.16/missing
> aclocal-1.14'
> AMTAR='$${TAR-tar}'
> AM_BACKSLASH='\'
> AM_DEFAULT_V='$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY)'
> AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY='1'
> AM_V='$(V)'
> AUTOCONF='${SHELL} /home/bb/paddys-hill-workarea/horseUtil-0.0.16/missing
> autoconf'
> AUTOHEADER='${SHELL}
> /home/bb/paddys-hill-workarea/horseUtil-0.0.16/missing autoheader'
> AUTOMAKE='${SHELL} /home/bb/paddys-hill-workarea/horseUtil-0.0.16/missing
> automake-1.14'
> AWK='gawk'
> COMPONENT_build='1'
> COMPONENT_name=''
> CYGPATH_W='echo'
>
>
> as a result the autotools package will not "make install" properly - it
> creates a /usr/lib/gambas/.gambas file etc.
>
> I suspect (but am not sure) the bit of code that creates the configure.ac
> file at ~line 1967 of the Package.module - I beleive GB_INIT_PROJECT needs
> two arguments, the second being the component name.
>
> Have to go out today so I won't have a chance to add any further info till
> later.
>
> regards
> bruce
>
> --
> B Bruen <adamnt42 at ...3379... (sort of)>
>
>
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