[378] in Athena User Interface
Re: tibbetts weekly report -- 08/06/2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Aug 21 11:40:26 2000
Message-Id: <200008211540.LAA12722@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:57:44 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:40:23 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 8/21 you wrote:
> A recent tibbetts time card said:
> > Future:
> > - Get the aui build system to be locker independent.
>
> This may have been spawned by something I said about the
> Makefile.athena and configure.athena scripts in the aui locker
> referring to /mit/aui paths.
Actually, it was more spawned by me saying that the build system is
almost independent now, and it would be cool to, for instance, use it
for the gnu locker, or any other locker that is largely built from
source.
The idea would be to make everything in packs/build be locker neutral,
or at least only store the locker name in one place.
> In retrospect, I don't think this is a terrible thing. The Athena
> tree already has Makefile.athena scripts which directly refer to
> /usr/athena paths, and this is okay. When stuff is moved from the aui
> locker to the athena source tree, it should be easy to fix those build
> scripts. And there isn't a great alternative; we don't have a central
> repository of path definitions except in config.site, which is not
> really designed for use by shell scripts other than configure.
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