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

[Mark Ito]

Folks,

I reversed the change I made last week. All makefiles and the BMS 
directory have been restored in sim-recon as of revision 14428. To be 
clear, I have _not_ done the weeding of makefiles from directories that 
have Sconscript files that Richard suggested. I agree that that is a 
reasonable next step.

   -- Mark

On 07/28/2014 03:02 PM, Richard Jones wrote:
> Mark,
>
> If you could back out the change, then go through and remove just the 
> Makefiles that coexist with SConscript files in the same directory, 
> that should be easy to do. Then as we move forward with the conversion 
> to scons, we can progressively remove the Makefiles and replace them 
> with SConscript files. This prevents us from having to maintain two 
> build systems simultaneously, while allowing the transition to scons 
> to be incremental.
>
> Meanwhile, I have checked changes into the BMS area on my working 
> branch (sim-recon-rj-pm) that makes the BMS system continue to work 
> under the new hierarchy for include/bin/lib dirs for those areas of 
> the build tree that are not converted to scons. You might want to move 
> them over to the trunk (changes to BMS), for people who work with 
> tools that are not currently instrumented for building with scons.
>
> Can someone remind me why the decision was made to switch the build 
> system for sim-recon over to scons before the conversion from make was 
> complete?
>
> -Richard J.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Mark M. Ito <marki at jlab.org 
> <mailto:marki at jlab.org>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>
>     -- 
>     Mark M. Ito, Jefferson Lab, marki at jlab.org
>     <mailto:marki at jlab.org>, (757)269-5295 <tel:%28757%29269-5295>
>
>

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

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