Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem with SWIG and c++ templates...

[Achilleas Anastasopoulos]

Jonathan,

I will do what you said.

BTW, whatever I have commited so far does pass make, make check.
What exactly is make distcheck ?

Achilleas

Johnathan Corgan wrote:
> Achilleas,
>
> For the kind of work you are doing, I would much prefer that you work in 
> a developer branch rather than the trunk.  This will help us to ensure 
> that the trunk is always compilable and passes 'make distcheck'.
>
> Eric has already created your developer branch directory, so all you 
> need to do further is:
>
> svn cp http://gnuradio.utah.edu/svn/gnuradio/trunk 
> http://gnuradio.utah.edu/svn/gnuradio/branches/developers/anastas/xxxx
>
> Substitute a meaningful name for 'xxxx' above to remind yourself of the 
> kind of work you're doing. (And the above, if it gets wrapped by your 
> mailer, should all be one command.)
>
> Then check out into a fresh directory on your machine:
>
> svn co 
> http://gnuradio.utah.edu/svn/gnuradio/branches/developers/anastas/xxxx 
> gnuradio
> cd gnuradio
>
> Now you can do all your work and check in at whatever points you like 
> without worrying about whether everything is always working.  Then, when 
> you're at some logical stopping point, make sure that the 'make 
> distcheck' operation succeeds all the way to the end.  Once that occurs, 
> you can merge all the
> changes you made into the trunk in one step (I'll walk you through that 
> at the right time.)
>
> This may seem like a lot of extra work but by doing your intermediate 
> work in a private developer branch and only merging with trunk when 
> 'make distcheck' succeeds we ensure that our users who are tracking the 
> trunk always get a working build.
>
> Thanks for your help and let me know if you have any questions.
>
> -Johnathan