[m-dev.] infrastructure for libmer_ssdb

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Peter Wang wrote:

> On 2007-10-15, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>  There is a list of places in scripts/c2init.in that need to be
>>  updated when a new library is added (there is a pointer to this list
>>  in the top-level Mmakefile).  Unless there is a technical reason why this
>>  has not yet happened, could one of the developers working the ssdb
>>  please fix this (one of the places that hasn't been updated is c2init.in
>>  itself.)
>
> The ssdb code depends on the library, and in the future may also depend
> on mdbcomp and the browser.  I've currently added --no-ssdb to LIB_FLAGS
> so predicates in the library won't make calls to predicate in the ssdb
> directory.  Perhaps the same should be done for mdbcomp and browser?
>
> Eventually I guess we'd want to be able to debug library and mdbcomp
> code, which would introduce cyclic dependencies.  How would we deal with
> that?
>
> Where does ssdb fit in this list?  It'll help me to update the scripts,
> which often orders things according to this list.
>
>    * trace library (trace/libmer_trace.a)

---> here presumably.

>    * browser library (browser/libmer_browser.a)
>    * mdbcomp library (mdbcomp/libmer_mdbcomp.a)
>    * standard library (library/libmer_std.a)
>    * runtime library (runtime/libmer_rt.a)
>    * Boehm collector (boehm_gc/libgc.a)

Julien.
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