[Vm-dev] help with autoconf...

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 22.04.2009, at 21:13, Eliot Miranda wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de 
> > wrote:
>
>
> On 22.04.2009, at 20:04, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>    I need to modify the autoconf scripts in the unix build to  
> arrange to omit the -fomit-frame-pointer flag form on e of the files  
> in Cog.  I've asked Ian for help but he's not responded for whatever  
> reason and I would like to solve the issue up front.  Is anyone  
> familiar enough with autoconf and has the free time to hold my hand  
> through the process.  I haven't got the patience to learn autoconf  
> myself (fundamentally because I think its a heap of crap, waaaay too  
> complicated to be worth the effort) but I would like to have the  
> rest of the VM compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer, essentially for  
> plugin performance, so I don't want to take the easy route and  
> simply omit -fomit-frame-pointer throguhout, and I don't want to  
> spend the time e.g. porting the Newspeak make framework, which would  
> be a good thing in the long run.
>
> TIA
> Eliot
>
>
> Ian is on vacation.
>
> That explains it.
>
>
>
> Easiest might be to add -fno-omit-frame-pointer when your file is  
> compiled, this should cancel a previous -fomit-frame-pointer.
>
> Right.

Actually, no. -fno-omit-frame-pointer seems to *force* a frame pointer  
even on platforms that by default have none ... or is that what you  
need?

>  My problem, however, is how to get autoconf to generate a specific  
> compile rule for one file.  I can define the alternative COMPILEALT  
> macro but I can't yet figure out how to spit out that rule for a  
> specific source file withoput hacking it at the wrong place.  But  
> I'm getting closer :/

Assuming you put it in the vm directory, hacking platforms/unix/vm/ 
Makefile.in should do it, no?

- Bert -


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