Re: [Gm2] Numerical Library - GM2 32 bit Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

[Gaius Mulley]

Hi Michael,

I've uploaded a copy of your libraries to:

http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/download/m2/TARGZ/open-source-library.tar.gz

(3MB of code)

which contain the start of the autotools.  With gm2-svn-trunc the string
library and tools directory build.  The stringlibrary will install and
live alongside the gm2 libraries.  This is worth looking at as gcc
provides a way of obtaining the library directory post install.
Thereafter you can:

  gm2 -flibs=pim,stringhandler foo.mod

There are a number of points worth noting:

  1.  it does require gm2 svn trunc to build.  Autoconfing this library
      was very useful to gm2 - as it highlighted a number of linking
      bugs which are now fixed!  Thank you for this spotlight!
  2.  I used a number of gnu tools to produce the autoconf/automake
      initial templates - so a number of files are present and blank
      (and maybe wrong) for example: NEWS, AUTHORS, COPYING and
      probably others.  These will need manual fixing.
  3.  The bootstrap mechanism I used was to copy some of the shared
      source files into the tools directory m2pp.  I almost regret this
      now, and would with hindsight have created a tree structure
      and made the build process copy the sources necessary
      (foo.m2cc -> foo.mod) if possible.  If this were not possible then
      I would have resorted to placing the specific version into a
      bootstrap directory and directed the path appropriately.
  4.  Although m2pp builds it also crashes immediately.  But one hurdle
      at a time :-)
      
however I thought it best to push the interim code back to you as it has
been a long time and there is probably mileage in examining the
Makefile.am and friends and how they can live alongside gm2,

hope this is of some use,

regards,
Gaius