[M3devel] Getting ready for new users (Re: HEADS UP: Release engineering)

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

>
>       2) CM3's shared libraries and any you create and ship are in:
>             /usr/local/cm3/lib
>          On most Unix systems you need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>          (on Darwin / MacOS X it's called DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH)
>          environment variable before running programs that use
>          these shared libraries.
> You don't need to do this any longer.
> Except on NetBSD. But even that will change with a move to NetBSD 5.0,
> which was recently released.
> I'm not certain I got to every platform yet with that change, but
> I definitely got to a few.

doc fixed

> AMD64_DARWIN is missing from the list.
> You should probably mention "Mac OSX" in the description of "Darwin",
> well, except for ARM_DARWIN, which should mention iPhone and iPod Touch.
> (cm3 does run on my phone..)

There is no configuration file for it in

m3-sys/cminstall/src/config-no-install

I've added it nonetheless. Perhaps you need to commit it.

> Interix should mention Service for Unix (SFU) and Subsystem for Unix  
>  Applications (SUA).

added

> SOLgnu uses the GNU C compiler but I believe Sun linker.

fixed

> I still haven't done much with my Alpha and IA64 machines. :)
>
>
> Hm, so many archives per platform now.
> Combinatorial situations lend themselves to combinatorial   
> thinking/work, yuck..

We can also provide one complete big archive if people want that.
It's just a matter of adding one line in make-dist.sh.
It will put some more stress on our network links though ;-)
I doubt that many people really want everything.

Thanks for the comments,

Olaf
-- 
Olaf Wagner -- elego Software Solutions GmbH
                Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 / Gebäude 12, 13355 Berlin, Germany
phone: +49 30 23 45 86 96  mobile: +49 177 2345 869  fax: +49 30 23 45 86 95
    http://www.elegosoft.com | Geschäftsführer: Olaf Wagner | Sitz: Berlin
Handelregister: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg HRB 77719 | USt-IdNr: DE163214194