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From: jis@mtgzx.att.com (J Mukerji)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: imake.tmpl question
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Date: 24 Sep 90 19:59:25 GMT
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I am trying to add a few directories to the andrew source tree to place
locally developed stuff into. Ideally I would like to have these
directories integrated in such a way that doing a "make World" at the
top level will build these directories too. I noticed that there is a
macro called EXTRASUBDIRS that can be used to specify additional
subdirectories to build at the root. So I setup my additional
subdirectories with appropriate Imakefiles and all, and then added the
following lines to config/site.mcr:

    #ifdef MK_LOCAL
    LOCAL = local
    #endif /* MK_LOCAL */

    #ifdef MK_SDA
    SDA = sda
    #endif /* MK_SDA */

    EXTRASUBDIRS = $(LOCAL) $(SDA)

and added the following lines to config/site.h:

    #define MK_LOCAL
    #define MK_SDA

And cranked up the imake command as specified in the README.ez file to
make me a Makefile at the root. When I took a peek at the Makefile thus
created I was disappointed to find that while the rules for
MakeSubdirs, DependMakeSubdirs, CleanSubdirs, TidySubdirs, TagsSubdirs,
and MakefileSubdirs contained  EXTRASUBDIRS, the rules for
dependInstallClean, InstallSubdirs, InstallDocSubdirs,
InstallAliasSubdirs, DependInstallSubdirs, and WorldInstallSubdirs do
not contain EXTRASUBDIRS.

This of course makes it very inconvenient for me to use EXTRASUBDIRS to
do what I wanted to do. Now I have one of two alternatives:

(i) Hack the root level Imakefile to do what I want to do.

(ii) Change imake.tmpl to add EXTRASUBDIRS to the rules that are missing them.

My question is what course does the collective wisdom of info-andrew
suggest that I take.

For the time being I have changed imake.tmpl since that seemed to be
simpler to do than the other alternative. However, since I do not know
the rationale behind the way imake.tmpl was originally setup, I do not
know whether what I did is right or not. So I look for the guidance of
Andrew experts.

BTW I have built Andrew PL6 using my modified imake.tmpl and it builds
and installs fine, including the local stuff.

Thanks.

                            Jishnu Mukerji,  
                           jis@mtgzx.att.com, 
                           +1 201 957 5986,  
                        AT&T Bell Laboratories, 
                      MT 3K-423, 200 Laurel Ave., 
                           Middletown NJ 07748