The goal is to use standard macros, which make code easier to maintain
(smaller, more consistent). We still keep the legacy "xfg-config" method
because we don't want to drop support for old hardware/software.
A side effect is the change in the name of the variables for the makefile,
but this goes in favour of consistency.
Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.curis@free.fr>
As reported by Amadeusz Sławiński, there were a number of debug-only
information printed by the menu parser, which had no reason to be
in a user package.
This patch removes all the hard-coded DEBUG definitions pointed
by Amadeusz and adds a new (standard-like) option '--enable-debug'
to the configure script, which activates debug stuff for the devs.
The default behaviour is now to not have them.
As a side effect, the option also disable optimisation, which are
generally annoying when trying to run a debugger.
I just spent an hour trying to find out why the latest wmaker-crm was
ignoring a number of the preferences in my configuration file. It turns
out the problem was that commit f41db5 added a value into the middle of
the enum in src/keybind.h, and the setting of
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = no-dependencies in all the Makefile.ams meant that
make wasn't smart enough to rebuild the files depending on it.
Would anyone mind if we just remove no-dependencies from
AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS? People can still run ./configure with
--disable-dependency-tracking to disable it at configure time.
Instead of using the --disable-verbose-compile hack, let's
use the standard option --enable-silent-rules (or 'make V=0' directly)
available with autoconf 1.11 and higher.
This is enabled in autoconf by using 'silent-rules' in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
The verbosity of compilation is reduced in a similar manner as using
the --disable-verbose-compile option, so we can remove all that ugly
hackery.
This patch modifies the linking of the WINGs libraries
to create a shared library. wmaker used to do this, but
it was dropped around wmaker-0.90/0.91.
The shared .so library is needed when compiling and running
the wdm display manager and any other programs which link
to libWINGs.
Submitted by: Gilbert Ashley
Origin: ALT/Sisyphus Linux
This patch adds the --disable-verbose-compile switch to the
configure script.
When this option is used it reduces the verbosity of compilation
messages to the essential. However compiler warnings are not affected
and thus gain visibility by not standing in the middle of a storm
of other messages.
In summary, the compilation messages are reduced to a stream of
CC array.o
CC bagtree.o
CC configuration.o
CC connection.o
CC data.o
[...]
instead of a mind-boggling flux of
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../src -I../WINGs/WINGs -I../wrlib -I../src
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/loca\"/usr/local/share/WINGs\"
-DDEBUG -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -c array.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../src -I../WINGs/WINGs
-I../wrlib -I../src -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/loca\"/usr/local/share/WINGs\"
-DDEBUG -fno-strict-aliasing -g -O2 -c bagtree.c
[...]
- Also tested the backward compatibility ability of the WINGs proplist code
which seems to work quite well.
Starting with this moment, Window Maker no longer needs libPropList and is
now using the better and much more robust proplist code from WINGs. Also the
WINGs based proplist code is actively maintained while the old libPropList
code is practically dead and flawed by the fact that it borrowed concepts
from the UserDefaults which conflicted with the retain/release mechanism,
making some problems that libPropList had, practically unsolvable without a
complete redesign (which can be found in the more robust WINGs code).
written in the libwraster.la file allowing automatic linking against
all the libs libwraster depends upon without specifing them again when
linking programs that use libwraster. -lwraster will be enough.
