Hi Derek,

  I'm doing some testing of the tarball now: I'll have more later, but
a few quick comments/questions:

  o Is it necessary to move the source modules up out of "src"? (I'd rather
    not reorganize the CVS repository if not absolutely necessary, plus
    I have a slight bias towards keeping the code in "src".)

  o It looks like it builds the .o and binaries directly into the source
    directories as opposed to a separate (obj, lib, bin) area. Is it 
    possible to continue to build into separate (obj, lib, bin) areas?
    (In particular with the "arch" subdirectory to allow different 
    architectures to be built consecutively within the same source
    build.)

  o The two solaris builds at SLAC (sol8 and sol9) fail during "./configure"
    with:

configure: error: Could not locate openssl/opensslv.h in /usr/include

    It looks like this is in /usr/local/include at SLAC.

  o It looks like the echo-ing of the compilation lines is on by default,
    this was an option previously.

  o For the Alice authorization package, we are happy to host this within
    the xrootd CVS for convenience even if that means some extra configure
    options. I think the important thing here is that those things are
    packaged separately (e.g. in a separate rpm/tarball, etc.) by the
    same build scripts.

                                   Pete

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Derek Feichtinger wrote:
> I have made the tarball with the autotools enabled build process available at
> 
> http://people.web.psi.ch/feichtinger/xrootdnewbuild-20050728-0310c.tar.gz
> (this is the code of the current production version)
> 
> No change to the sources was made (although some changes would have made 
> possible a more elegant usage of some autotools features), but the 
> distribution has the top directory layer removed, i.e. what you'll find is 
> the former src/ directory.
> 
> I provide some instructions in the INSTALL.* files. Please tell me, if you 
> encounter any problems or if you would like any changes.
> 
> There are some issues left:
> - what should be installed by 'make install'. Currently the binaries and some 
> of the libraries get installed. But we should define the exact set of 
> libraries and headers.
> 
> - Where should the /etc and /utils end up. Should they be installed? The utils 
> scripts would typically go to prefix/usr/bin. Where should we put the etc 
> stuff? Maybe in prefix/etc/xrootd/?
> 
> - The Alice authorization can be added to this in a separate module, which I 
> will host presently (decided on not including them in the same tarball, 
> because they require two other alice-specific libraries. This would require 
> up to 5 additional options to the main configure command. I think it makes 
> more sense to provide this as an optional download with its own configure 
> script).
> 
> - autotools also has some support for testing. It would be useful to add some 
> standard tests.
> 
> - maybe improving the 'configure --help' output
> 
> Gerri and I have tested compilation of  the tarball on a range of systems
> (Thanks for the help, Gerri!):
> 
> CPU        OS                       Compiler      system's target string
>                                                   (as found by configure)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> i686       RH 7.3                   gcc-2.96      i686-pc-linux-gnu
> i686 (P4)  SL CERN Release 3.0.5    gcc-3.2.3     i686-pc-linux-gnu
> i686 (AMD) RH EL3                   gcc-3.2.3     i686-pc-linux-gnu
> i686       2.6.11-gentoo-r8         gcc-3.3.5     i686-pc-linux-gnu
> i686       debian SID (unstable)    gcc-3.3.6     i686-pc-linux-gnu
> i686       slackware                gcc-3.3.6     i686-pc-linux-gnu
> i686       RH 7.3                   icc-8.0       i686-pc-linux-gnu
> IA-64      SL CERN Release 3.0.5    gcc-3.2.3     ia64-unknown-linux-gnu
> amd64      SL CERN Release 3        gcc-3.2.3     x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> powerpc    darwin7.9.0              gcc-3.3       powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0
> sparc      Solaris 9 (SunOS)        SunCC         sparc-sun-solaris2.9
> 
> 
> However, it might be possible that building on other architectures requires 
> additions to the configure.ac file.
> If you experience any problems, please send me the compile error and the 
> contents of the config.log file.
> 
> Cheers,
> Derek
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Derek Feichtinger                   Tel:   +41 22 767 10 07
> LCG/ARDA Group                            email: [log in to unmask]
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