Greetings, all. I've made a new release of autoastrom, and immediately afterwards I moved my autoastrom and astrom repositories to cvs.starlink.ac.uk. As discussed briefly on this list a couple of weeks ago, there are now, under cvs.starlink.ac.uk:/cvs, /applications/astrom: the ASTROM sources, currently v3.7 /applications/autoastrom: autoastrom /libraries: currently empty /thirdparty/eso/catlib: the version of ESO's catlib that I've been mirroring in my repository -- this may be slightly different from the version Peter has for GAIA /docs/sc3: this is the Echelle data reduction cookbook -- nothing to do with autoastrom, but it seemed sensible to move it there /java, /buildlog, /adass, as before I haven't done anything overimaginative concerning the build procedure, and what's there at present is only interim. Notes: * To build autoastrom, you have to checkout the _module_ autoastrom (see CVSROOT/modules), which in turn checks out the modules astrom and catlib. I don't think this is the best way of organising this, but right now I only wanted to do the transfer to the RAL repository and make sure everything did build. Better, I think, would be to have astrom and catlib built entirely separately, and installed into the standard location, with that coordinated by a top-level Makefile which had nothing to do other than manage the dependencies (and I know how that could be neatly organised). * To build autoastrom, you also need to drop a tarball of match-0.7 into the directory, which is available from <http://spiff.rit.edu/match/> (though I've mailed the author to see if this is in fact the canonical distribution point -- there seems to be several). This is unsatisfactory, but I'm not convinced I know the best thing to do here. It doesn't seem necessary to check it in to the /thirdparty part of the tree, since we (or at least, I) don't plan to hack around with it at all; however having a known-good version in the tree is the other thing thirdparty trees are for, I know. Also, I do currently want to include match in the autoastrom distribution, rather than simply say to folk to get it themselves, so I can't just leave it out. Oooh, muddle -- any ideas? * Thus the full build sequence for autoastrom is cvs checkout autoastrom cd autoastrom sh bootstrap wget http://spiff.rit.edu/match/match-0.7.tar.gz ./mk build The `sh bootstrap' does whatever is necessary to get the checkout to the point where you type `./mk build'. In autoastrom, it merely invokes the same command in both astrom and moggy; in both of those the corresponding `bootstrap' script runs autoconf, and in moggy it runs automake, too. This is a common convention and, I believe, a good one, and I suggest that we should make it a habit to include such a script to bring a freshly checked-out directory to a ./configure-able state. * The current autoastrom is tagged as autoastrom-0-5-8, and since it was copied from my repository wholesale, rather than being freshly imported, it has the history intact. In case anyone else is planning to do that, you do indeed simply tar up your local repository directory and unpack it on cvs.starlink.ac.uk: ptolemy:starlink> pwd /home/norman/CVS/starlink # <-- my repository tree ptolemy:starlink> tar cf - sc3|ssh [log in to unmask] 'cd /cvs/docs;tar xBf -' ptolemy:starlink> * moggy uses autoconf/automake, astrom uses autoconf. moggy does not in fact have a mk script (because it isn't separately distributed); astrom does, still, but it can also build, after bootstrapping, with just `./configure;make'. * Might now be a good time to think of abandoning the mk scripts and the set of targets in the standard makefiles, since they're now significantly at odds with the way that software is generally built and installed now; plus if we're managing and distributing the source with CVS, some of those targets are redundant also. Instead, a slightly tweaked version of the makefiles generated by automake would surely work well. For example, they need to be tweaked so that they install into /star by default, rather than /usr/local, and so that they always have a deinstall target; automake is sufficiently configurable that all this could be kept very automatic. As I've mentioned here before, I plan to think seriously about how to go about this for the echomop sources, which I plan to move to the RAL repository quite soon. Any comments? See you, Norman -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK [log in to unmask]