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From: | nbs_r |
Subject: | Re: [Gnucap-devel] missing info in the models tarballs. |
Date: | Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:26:42 +0900 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) |
al davis wrote:
On Sunday 25 February 2007 07:59, Stuart Brorson wrote:2. The libtool tarball is about 3 MB. about 3 times the size of the gnucap basic tarball. (core + enough plugins to be useful) It contains lots of stuff for lots of systems.I gotta agree with the chorus of libtool advocates. It will make your life easier. Also, what the big deal about a 3MB tarball if you already require g++ to build Gnucap & it's plug-ins?It creates a RUN TIME dependency for something that should be determined pre-build, that can be determined without it,and doesn't completely solve the problem.
I think libtool is not really necessary. A simple platform-dependent wrapper script would do fine. There are not so many options required for building plugins after all (few dependencies (?), no site-dependent configuration). What is necessary is compiler/linker invocation and this can be hardcoded or, as David proposed, dumped to the file at build-time configuration of gnucap itself.
Still, the most reliable option would be to ship gnucap with a model interpreter/vm or at least an embedded compiler. Sites without or with incomplete development tools are not that uncommon.
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