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[Bernard Mourrain <address@concealed>]

Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:30:27PM +0200, Bernard Mourrain wrote:
> > The good news of the end of the weekend:
> > A cmake support for mmx is now available!
>
> Please mention more prominently that the support is only at an alpha-stage.
For sure, it is certainly not the omega.

> > mkdir build         # the directory where all will be built
> > cd build
> > cmake ../mmx        # or the directory of mmx
> > make
> > source local_paths  # to setup environment variables
> > mmx-light           # to run the interpreter
>
> I get the same error as Frederic.
>
> I also noticed that virtually all compilation options have disappeared,
> and in particular the optimization options which are necessary
> for good performance.
They are back.

> > * The same process applies for the construction of one package
> > (cmake ../mmx/the_package).
>
> For the moment, only your own packages seem to be supported.
No, currently the test process is only concerned with basix & mmxlight.
Once this is working well on different platforms, we will extend it to 
the other packages.

> > * The axel plugins provided by package are also built with cmake
> > (including the moc generation).
>
> Gregoire has not managed to build Axel, although he has tried
> hard several times and during several hours. You have already
> discussed these problems with him?
This is not for the construction of axel but of its plugins ...
> > Warning: there are still some prolems to fix (eg. the option SIMD or the 
> > documentation). They should be treated in the next step.
>
> Yes, this is going to be the painful part...
...
> > Enjoy portability now!
>
> Portability to what? Did you succeed any kind of portability
> which was not achieved by the current autotools-based system?
> Does everything work on Windows now?
No local hack of libtool for Mac for instance.
Tests on virtual windows machine with mingw should be done soon.
Automatic production of installers, of rpm, deb, ...


> Some good news too from our side: we probably found suitable
> people for both job offers. We will ask them to investigate
> the autotools and cmake systems more closely and suggest a solution.
Yes good news.
In the todo list, there is the packaging issue, the testing and for 
instance the use of CDash for nightly tests and many other things ...

> Best wishes, --Joris

B.