Feature #1080
Extend "Contributing to GammaLib" guide with info about @make install@
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 01/14/2014 | |
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| Priority: | Low | Due date: | ||
| Assigned To: |  Deil Christoph | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | 00-08-00 | |||
| Duration: |
Description
The “Contributing to GammaLib” guide contains lots of very useful information.
https://cta-redmine.irap.omp.eu/projects/gammalib/wiki/Contributing_to_GammaLib
In addition, it would be great to describe how to set ./configure --prefix=XXX and when to make install to get an updated GammaLib version.
For new developers it can be confusing that make check automatically picks up the currently development version of GammaLib,
but if they have their own test Python scripts or C++ programs or work on ctools, the old installed GammaLib version is picked up if they didn’t say make install.
Michael,
from the last coding sprint I vaguely remember that you had a nice and fast edit - build - test development cycle where I think you didn’t need make install but somehow directly used the GammaLib library from the source directory that gets generated simply by make?
Recurrence
No recurrence.
History
#1
Updated by Mayer Michael over 10 years ago
Michael,
from the last coding sprint I vaguely remember that you had a nice and fast edit - build - test development cycle where I think you didn’t need make install > but somehow directly used the GammaLib library from the source directory that gets generated simply by make?
I actually don’t remember to have such a cycle. When I make changes, I rebuild gammalib with make -j5 followed by make install. Of course, you could always write these two commands in a shell script but this will make you insensitive for error output.
#2
Updated by Knödlseder Jürgen over 10 years ago
When you use the unit tests you don’t have to install. Just typing
make check
should do the job. The only problem arises when you change interfaces of functions, as not everything is necessarily rebuilt correctly. In this case you may need a
make clean
before to get a clean system, which then gives you time for a coffee break ...
#3
Updated by Deil Christoph over 10 years ago
- Status changed from New to Resolved
- Assigned To set to Deil Christoph
- Priority changed from Normal to Low
This was the kind of information I think was missing:
https://cta-redmine.irap.omp.eu/projects/gammalib/wiki/Contributing_to_GammaLib#Installing-GammaLib
I wasn’t sure whether it should be integrated at the top or put in a separate section ... feel free to improve it.
#4
Updated by Knödlseder Jürgen over 10 years ago
- Status changed from Resolved to Closed
- Target version changed from 2nd coding sprint to 00-08-00