On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Norman Gray wrote:

> Tim, and some general remarks, too.
>
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
> > REF is now in CVS with configure.
>
> Excellent.  I've just tinkered with it, to remove ref_err and
> fac_201_err, which aren't supposed to be checked in since they're
> generated files.  And I've improved the corresponding text in SSN/78 to
> make it less ambiguous.

Sorry. I did mean to do that (SSN78 was clear) but what I am doing is
committing all the original source code first as a reference point,
tagging it, and then doing a cvs remove on all the files we don't need. I
forgot to remove the fac and err files last night.

>
> I also changed the way the TESTS support was declared.  What you had
> matched what I suggested yesterday (down to what I later realised was
> a hopelessly opaque comment), but I spent a bit of time this morning
> thinking about this with respect to ems, and adding a section to SSN/78
> recommending how to declare regression tests.
>

Hmm. So you want to build the tests without using the _link script shipped
with the tests? That was working for me (although I have to make sure the
_link script is +x - which I haven't been able to work out for files that
are generated from a .in file). Surely the test should be testing the
_link script as well as the library?

> But both this, and the fact that things like XXX_ERR and fac_xxx_err
> are to be generated, does further strengthen the case for keeping ALL
> generated files out of CVS.  Keep adding them at present, but I think
> I will soon pick a time to go round all the components and remove
> Makefile.in and configure, and get starconf-validate to reverse its
> check-in test for those.  I'll announce beforehand.

I'm happy for the generated files to be out of CVS. This won't affect
building of tarballs. [there will presumably be an equivalent target at
the top level for creating a load of tar balls - we may want to call the
packages starlink-ref, starlink-nbs etc when we make the tar balls]

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Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj