[m-rev.] for tryout and review: install .module_dep files to grade-specific directories

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 00:42:09 +1000, Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> > That list is a useful cue in its own right. The last line is
> > for the non-grade-dependent copy for the current grade
> > (one issue is the question of why is this needed at all),
> > but the first two shows that
> >
> > - .module_dep files *were* installed to grade-specific directories, but
> > - these seem to be the wrong directories, and
> > - even this was not done for all libgrades, unless the java and csharp grades
> >   were the *only* libgrades to install.
> 
> No, the java and csharp grades were not the only grades installed; they
> are however the only ones built and installed using mmc --make (via
> mmake --use-mmc-make).

That would explain why bool.module_dep was installed to a grade-specific
directory only for those grades, but it also tells me I had the wrong picture of
how you did the install. I expected a simple mmc --make install of all the libgrades.

Did you do what you did because there is something that prevents an mmc --make
based install from working for the other grades? If yes, what is the problem?

Whether the sequence

- a purely mmake based install of the library for the non-java, non-c# grades, and
- an mmc --make based install (via mmake --use-mmc-make) of the library
  for the java and c# grades

should *even be expected to work* is one of the issues I posted. I did not have
a look at how "mmake --use-mmc-mmake" installs would work, but pure mmake
installs do "rmdir" commands on a directory before copying files to a directory,
which mmc --make installs do not do. I think either choice is fine, as long as it is
consistently followed and documented. Unfortunately, the current system is
*both* inconsistent *and* undocumented :-(

> > (The seemingly wrong directories are the same grade-specific places
> > where we have always put .opt files, which are grade-specific,
> > but it seems we search for .module_dep files differently than .opt files.
> > And, of course this does not seem to have been documented anywhere.)
> >
> > Can you please send me (a) the output of "ls -1RF" for the install
> > directory,
> 
> Attached.

Thanks.

Please keep that install directory for a while longer. I intend to send an updated
diff in the next 24 hours that won't fix the problem, but will generate more debugging
output that I expect will give me at least some of the info I will need
to fix the problem.

Zoltan.