Re: [Bug-apl] Best way to compile after a SVN update

[Blake McBride]

Here is a safer version:

#

cd ~/Backup

rm -rf apl

mkdir apl

cd apl

cp -rp ../gnu-apl.svn/* .

./configure

make

sudo make install

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

I build with the following script:

#

cd ~/Backup

mkdir apl

cd apl

rm -rf *

cp -rp ../gnu-apl.svn/* .

./configure

make

sudo make install

This way my SVN copy is never touched.

Blake

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Louis,

The SVN number is written by ./configure, so if you want it to be correct then you need to
re-run ./configure after svn update. But that number not too relevant so skipping this ./configure
is normally OK.

The more important question is that of dependencies. The default ./configure selects a "fast install" that
skips some dependency checks. For a packet installed from the GNU APL project tar file that is OK but
when working with SVN it is not because some changes in .hh and .def files will not be noticed. Therefore,
when working from the SVN repository, you should do one of the following:

1. make clean after (every) svn update (OK but not optimal)
2. ./configure with --enable-maintainer-mode (and possibly other options)
3. make develop after the first ./configure

3. does 2. and a few more useful things like enabling assertions and dynamic logging.
See README-2-configure for details.

2. is needed only once and stays until the next ./configure (which makes it better than 1.)

You should also always do a make install, otherwise you could get conflicts between the apl
binary and shared libraries if you start a new apl binary and it uses old shared libraries.

/// Jürgen

On 05/12/2015 03:47 PM, Louis Chretien wrote:

After doing an update of my local working copy, with:

svn update ./apl

What are the commands required to rebuild APL?

Right now, through trials and erros, i’ve come up with:

make distclean (it seems that make clean is not enough, because the resulting APL doesn’t have the new SVN number)

./configure

make

Are there any other ways to do this? better?

Thanks,

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Louis Chrétien

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