Re: kitgen with packages - KBS

On 13 Apr 2007, at 14:22, rene wrote:

> At first two changes in "kbs.tcl":
>
> old:
>   cd [file dirname [info nameofexe]]
> new (may be this get better):
>   cd [file dirname [info nameofexe]]/../..

Wait, that means you'll be building results at the kitgen top-level  
dir.  This is ok for a single configuration, but prevents using kbs  
to build for different configurations (e.g. symbols, profiling).   
Hmmm, looking again - I don't see how your change can work actually,  
doesn't this break kbs::make, which uses ../../extdefs?

Would it be an idea to remove the "cd" command completely?  That way  
both ways of using kbs could perhaps be supported after some tweaking.

> old:
>   proc kbs::make {} {
>     foreach f [lsort -dict [glob -directory ../../extdefs -tails
> *.kbs]] {
> new (no extra build target necessary):
>   proc kbs::make {{pattern *}} {
>     foreach f [lsort -dict [glob -directory ../../extdefs -tails
> $pattern.kbs]] {
>
> Now the build. No need to build tclkits before.
>   make base
>   8.5/base-std/build/bin/tclsh8.5 make ?extension-pattern?
> To collect sources for offline work I use the following proc:
>
> proc kbs::sources {{pattern *}} {
>   proc ::config::Build {path} {puts $path}
>   proc ::config::Result {path} {puts $path}
>   proc ::config::Unglob {match} {}
>   make $pattern
> }

Neat.  I did indeed choose a format for the *.kbs description files  
which would support scenarios such as these, i.e. running the same  
script with one or more dummy procs.

I'll keep your suggestions in mind.  Have a couple of other ideas to  
chew on - but this is a nice way to extend things.

> I will try all the stuff next week under SunOS and can make more tests
> under IRIX in week 22.

Ok.  That should provide some good test cases - they both have  
different requirements.

Thanks.

-jcw

PS.  The encoding issue should now be fixed - the mkclvfs changes  
have been uploaded to http://www.equi4.com/pub/tk/tars/vqtcl.tgz