I would like to contribute to the root project by adding
Autoconf and automake support. This has several advantages, which I
list below:
1) ROOT would become truly portable to many more systems, which is
to say, as portable as any GNU software is.
2) Because of 1), people not familiar with CMZ who use platforms
for which ROOT binaries are not currently available would now
be able to download root.{tar.gz|zip|saveset} and do a simple
`./configure; make' and have a working ROOT package.
3) Because of 2), there would potentially be many more users of
ROOT, which would give the developers more useful feedback and
bug reports, and expand the collective knowledge of the user
community.
4) Other forms of distribution of the root binaries become
available. For example, I (and/or others) would be able to
trivially contribute ROOT RPMs to the Linux community.
However, I'm afraid I'm not a CMZ power user and therefore don't
have the expertise to bootstrap myself into my proposed project. I
have read the CMZ User's Guide from front to back, with the CMZ
Reference Manual at my side. However, I'm afraid CMZ is still a
mystery to me.
What I am looking for is a CMZ wizard to help me bootstrap
this project. Ultimately what I need is the source code (all of it,
not just conditionalized for my particular system) in my filesystem.
The source code in the CMZ file is already conditionalized, which is
90% of the work when converting an existing software package to
Autoconf/automake.
However, when I do a CXTRACT from //, I get only the code that
has been conditionalized for my system. Is there a way of turning
the CMZ `+IF=...' construct into the CPP `#ifdef ...' or `#if
defined(...)' construct? If not then it would be a nightmare to
have to export the entire source tree for each CMZ variant of the
source code and manually diff them against each other to manually
create the CPP constructs.
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
-- Matt Langston SLD, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center langston@SLAC.Stanford.EDU http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~langston (415) 926-3279