[BuildTools] [Coin-tlc] Help with build system

[Matěj Týč]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 16:58 +0200, Stefan Vigerske wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 08.06.2010 10:20, schrieb Matěj Týč:
> > On Sat, 2010-06-05 at 13:09 +0200, Stefan Vigerske wrote:

...

> >> I agree.
> >> But one may wanna change it such that from the big tarball one does the
> >> whole configure+make+make test+make install for one project after the other.
> > 
> > That would be easy for us, but it would not make things very different
> > from downloading all tarballs separatelly :-) I am an optimist, I think
> > that we will manage to do it in a smart way. In the worst case, we could
> > make a shell script that would build and install all the stuff for the
> > user.
> 
> I thought this "worst case" could be the final goal. :-)
> Ted was also thinking of having some installer that pulls down all
> required packages, builds and installs them.
> Currently there is a "small" configure script in the project base
> directory. It should be possible to replace it by somethink that does
> configure+build+test+install for each subdirectory one by one.

If Automake could handle it, it would be somewhat better. Portable shell
scripting is usually a pain and if 
 - somebody doesn't have an Internet connection at that moment or
website is down
 - the up-to-date versions are broken with your script

the all-inclusive tarball would be much more appreciated (because you
have every COIN stuff you need and it is tested as whole).

So should I try to write gnulib-powered checks for some libraries?

> 
> Stefan

Matej