[Vm-dev] simplifying build system

[Ben Coman]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
<gerardo.santana at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I want to refer to https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/75
>
> The idea is to reduce duplication to the minimum. There's no need to have so much code duplicated. The changes introduced in pull request #75 factorizes code and still creates a different directory to output intermediate products, as I think was the intention of having so many subdirectories and copies of the mvm script.
>
> Consider this change as a first shy step towards having a single source tree and Makefile to build any platform.


>From another thread...
on Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 5:31 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
> - we will write linux makefiles in the style of the windows and mac makefiles, all using gmake


Hi Eliot,

I notice that the Windows build root directory...
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/build.win32x86/squeak.cog.spur

doesn't have the directories build, build.debug, build.assert, etc...
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/tree/Cog/build.linux32x86/squeak.cog.spur

Gerado's changes here...
  https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/pull/75/files
move in that direction.  Could you skim an architectural review to
advise if this is heading the right way and I can work with Gerardo to
do detailed testing.

Perhaps the following should be used as a template?
  https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/blob/Cog/build.win32x86/common/Makefile


Also, until after Pharo 6 Release, maybe this work should be done
under a new directory buildnew.linux32x86 ??

cheers -ben