[Halld-offline] Fwd: updates to branch sim-recon-rj-pm checked in

[Mark M. Ito]

Richard et al.,

On 07/26/2014 01:57 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> ... Also a note to Mark, I hope we did not remove the Makefiles from 
> the branches of the tree where scons has not yet been implemented.
I'm afraid we did (on the trunk).
> There are useful tools out there that can only be built using make, as 
> of today. For example, consider src/libraries/AMPTOOLS_DATAIO. When I 
> need one of these, I simply apply whatever fixes to the BMS system is 
> needed to restore the former build functionality. If the Makefiles are 
> globally stripped then that leaves whole branches of sim-recon without 
> any build system at all, which is probably a step backward. It should 
> probably be either make or scons, but not both, and not neither.
So my impression is that we were not ready for a global makefile 
removal. We need to be more targeted. Identify the special directories, 
restore make in those directories only or convert them to scons.

Sounds like right now the trunk has broken directories, i. e., there is 
no way to build them right now. The quickest thing is to reverse my 
changes from Friday completely, i. e., put the makefiles and BMS back 
the way they were before, and have a better plan for going forward next 
time. That is my proposal; comments?

   -- Mark


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Mark M. Ito, Jefferson Lab, marki at jlab.org, (757)269-5295