[Pkg-ace-devel] Simplified GUI support in ACE/TAO

[Marek Brudka]

    TAO VERSION: 1.4.4 (cvs 20050306)
    ACE VERSION: 5.4.4 (cvs 20050306)
 
    AREA/CLASS/EXAMPLE AFFECTED:
    GUI support
    DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT:
       COMPILATION? yes (in some sense :-) )

Hi,

    I modified some defaults to decrease the number of switches
necessary to support GUI in ACE and TAO
(see ACE-INSTALL.html for more detail info, please). Currently there
are four switches to control
compilation, namely qt, fl, tk and xt.

Briefly:
mwc.pl -features qt=1,fl=1,tk=1,xt=1 generates build files for GUI
support in ACE and TAO,
while
make qt=1 fl=1 tk=1 xt=1 compiles GUI support.

Nevertheless, I did not removed all those features which were required
previously, namely
x11, gl, ace_qtreactor, ace_xtreactor, ace_flreactor, ace_tkreactor,
tao_qtresource,
tao_tkresource, tao_xtresource,  tao_flresource. They are still
recognized, hence once may gain
a better control on generation/compilation if necessary.

I do not expect that these changes affect in some way
autoconf/automake, but it would to be wise to check
if ac/am still works as needed :-)

BTW. The relation between MPC features and makefile variables is more
and more obfuscated.
I understand the reason, namely possibility to compile ACE using
Makefiles only without MPC generation.
Nevertheless I sense some problems with this scheme when the number of
external, optional libraries
for ACE will grow.


Your comments are welcome

Marek Brudka