[Vm-dev] running 'configure' command from within Squeak and then loading that config.h into my object...similar work done?

[Eliot Miranda]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:46 PM, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all
>
> In Ian's CMake infrastructure, the instructions require the user to run
> the configure command before invoking cmake.
>
> For the CMakeVMMaker(Squeak) we currently have config.h embedded in the
> class.
>
> For my first configuration after this massive refactoring I have done, I
> first ran the 'mvm' on the GNU side and then cut-n-paste that generated
> config.h into my class.
>

Tta;s an absurd thing to do.  It means that we need a different class for
every single different release of a Unix OS, because the generated config.h
could potentially change with every different release of a Unix OS.
 config.h has *no* place in the image.  It must be generated at compile
time.


>
> That's ok for an intermediate step, but I would like to take it a step
> further and...
>
> 1. invoke configure from squeak (I have the configure flags like
> '--without-npsqueak --without-gl...etc" embedded in the class, so they are
> avaiable to invoke configure with)
> 2. detect the success or failure of the configure command
> 3. if successful, load the generated config.h into my class (actually,
> this is redundant, but it may come in handy)
> 4. continue as normal.
>
> Does this sound reasonable to everybody?
>
>
> thx,
>
>
> tty
>
>
>
>


-- 
best,
Eliot
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