On Saturday 10 April 2004 22:51, Jeff Hobbs wrote:
Gustaf Neumann wrote:
i get the impression you are fixing things that are not broken in the general distribution. The configure stuff is defined to produces always a file xotclsh or xowish, no matter whether you compile with or without --with-xotclsh.
This is just plain wrong. Drop the mega-binary idea. It is dead, dead, dead, dead.
flame down, i know this, we have adressed this. per default, xotcl creates a file called "xotclsh", which is a tclsh script, and NOT the binary you are talking about. Do you oppose as well a tclsh script, having such a name?
Tcl has had a very good dll mechanism for 7 years - all extensions should use it. So IMO Jim is fixing a configure system that *is* broken, at its very core design.
look at our configure stuff, it has changend substantially in the last year. I would say, that i have personally invested over the last year more time into making xotcl's build system TEA compatible than into xotcl itself. We went through tough exercises such as building xotcl from outside directoris % mkdir -p /tmp/xotcl/unix % cd /tmp/xotcl/unix % ~/xotcl-1.2.0/unix/configure --with-all % make % make test % make install DESTDIR=/tmp as a result, xotcl was added to the tcl/tk distro for max OS X (Aqua). Correct me, if i am wrong, but I got the impression you are taking about the build system of xotcl, as it was about 2 years ago, and not about our current stuff.
-gustaf