Hi,
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
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