RE:Re: [ROOT] RE:CINT filename extensions

From: Masaharu Goto (MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 13:40:35 MEST


Hello Chris,

In that case, I'll implement a compile switch G__NOMAKEINFO
in next release. It will skip MAKEINFO access for most of the
cases.

Thank you 
Masaharu Goto


>Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:13:01 +0300
>From: Christoph Bugel <chris@tti-telecom.com>
>To: Masaharu Goto <MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp>
>Cc: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch, rootdev@pcroot.cern.ch, meirr@tti.co.il
>Subject: Re: [ROOT] RE:CINT filename extensions
>
>
>You are correct, CINTSYSDIR was not defined. I do that on purpose, because
>I want to use only the required minimum, I don't want to need extra files
>at runtime if it is not strictly necessary. The only file I still need at
>runtime is bool.h, and I would like to fix that too, if possible. I just
>use the core of cint, (libcint), without the stl libraries, include files,
>without cint.exe.
>
>I think that in my situation the error message about not finding MAKEINFO
>occurs only when I call G__loadfile() with a filename containing an unknown
>extension. I don't use MAKEINFO even at compilation time, (I made a custom
>makefile), so I really want to avoid needing it file at runtime. I am
>trying to use a 'standalone' libcint, with as little as possible things
>needed at runtime. The smaller it is, the easier to understand :)
>
>So I am now trying to find a solution.  I think I will first try to make a
>'my_tempnam' function that will guarantee a filename without a dot.
>Another option is to use the new G__load_text() API, which makes the
>tempname by itself.  (What happens if cint generates a temp name with a dot
>inside, will it also need MAKEINFO?)
>
>I this doesn't work I will let you know :)
>
>Thanks,
>Christoph
>
>
>On Wed 2001-08-08, Masaharu Goto wrote:
>> Hello Christoph,
>> 
>> The change you requested can be made easily.  However, if it is
>> a matter of finding MAKEINFO file, you can simply define an
>> environment variable CINTSYSDIR. Cint looks for $CINTSYSDIR/MAKEINFO.
>> The error obviously looks like this setting is missing.
>> 
>> set CINTSYSDIR=c:\cint     for windows
>>         or
>> export CINTSYSDIR=/home/xxx/yyy/cint   for UNIX
>> 
>> Thank you
>> Masaharu Goto
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> >Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:17:13 +0300
>> >From: Christoph Bugel <chris@tti-telecom.com>
>> >To: roottalk@pcroot.cern.ch, rootdev@pcroot.cern.ch
>> >Cc: meirr@tti.co.il
>> >Subject: CINT filename extensions
>> >
>> >Hi!
>> >
>> >Our system takes a C++ sourcefile, copies it to a tempfile (the
>> >filename is generated using tempnam()) and then ask cint to load the
>> >files with G__loadfile().
>> >
>> >Usually this works fine, but once in a while cint will say "Error:
>> >cannot open /MAKEINFO".  This happens only when the tempfile happens
>> >to contain a dot (.)! for example: "/users/chris/tmp/scripAAAI.bpY_".
>> >So I think this happened because cint tries to recognize the filename
>> >extension. (even thought it is just a random string)
>> >
>> >I know cint needs to look at the filename extension in order to know
>> >if the file is a sourcefile or a precompiled dll. As it is now, I
>> >don't need cint to load dlls at runtime. Would it be possible to tell
>> >cint (at compilation time) that *all* filenames (no matter what
>> >extension) are source files?
>> >
>> >Thanks!
>> 



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