[BuildTools] Recent changes

[Stefan Vigerske]

Hi,

I was leaning towards not forcing --with-pic as default.
I think it's easier to maintain the BuildTools when not overruling 
autotools defaults. Also it's easier for users when things behave as 
they use to in most applications of autotools.

Stefan

On 01/20/2015 02:35 AM, Ted Ralphs wrote:
> Sorry, my bad, I should have dug into the tickets a bit to see what was
> there that I could easily address with the new stable version. This one is
> another candidate:
>
> https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/ticket/98
>
> I would also like to see --with-pic as default, since it is required for
> debugging Python extensions. The problem with that one is that I don't
> think ASL can be built properly with that option.
>
> Given that the releases just happened and should not really be "in the
> wild" yet, we could in principle do some after-the-fact commits to fix
> things up. It's not very nice, but wouldn't probably do much harm in this
> case. Is it worthwhile to consider this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 3:47 AM, Tony Kelman <kelman at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>>    Ted et al,
>>
>> Looks like I just missed the boat on the .0 releases of the new stables. I
>> wish I had remembered slightly earlier, but this would have been a good
>> time to try to resolve https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/ticket/104.
>> Debian and Fedora have to carry local patches to make installing with
>> DESTDIR work, the patches themselves are pretty simple. Here are Fedora’s,
>> hopefully Miles can tell us whether or not Debian’s look exactly the same.
>>
>>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coin-or-CoinUtils.git/tree/coin-or-CoinUtils-pkgconfig.patch
>>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coin-or-Osi.git/tree/coin-or-Osi-pkgconfig.patch
>>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coin-or-Clp.git/tree/coin-or-Clp-pkgconfig.patch
>>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coin-or-Cgl.git/tree/coin-or-Cgl-pkgconfig.patch
>>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coin-or-Cbc.git/tree/coin-or-Cbc-pkgconfig.patch
>>
>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coin-or-Ipopt.git/tree/coin-or-Ipopt-pkgconfig.patch
>> I believe Couenne and OS need the same but they aren’t packaged in Fedora
>> yet.
>>
>> Obviously we’d need to apply the same changes to the corresponding
>> Makefile.am files as well.
>>
>> -Tony
>>
>>
>>   *From:* Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu>
>> *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 8:17 AM
>> *To:* Buildtools <buildtools at list.coin-or.org>
>> *Cc:* coin-tlc <coin-tlc at list.coin-or.org>
>> *Subject:* [Coin-tlc] Recent changes
>>
>>   Hi all,
>>
>> I recently made several changes to the build tools that I wanted to make
>> you aware of.
>>
>> 1. I made release 0.7.18 that changes from the use of the vecLib framework
>> to the use of the Accelerate framework on OS X. The vecLib framework is no
>> longer included in OS X as of 10.9.
>>
>> 2. I made a new stable version 0.8 and changed dependency linking to be
>> the default in all configurations except with the Visual Studio compilers.
>>
>> I am planning to make a new release 0.8.0 shortly and then will begin
>> switching trunks of all projects that use the BuildTools to point to
>> stable/0.8. Is there anything else that should be changed in stable/0.8
>> before we make the first release?
>>
>> After switching trunks of all projects, I will begin making new stables
>> and releases for all projects. This will eventually be followed by a new
>> stable version 1.8 of CoinAll.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ted
>> --
>>   Dr. Ted Ralphs
>> Professor, Lehigh University
>> (610) 628-1280
>> ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
>> coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
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