[Swift-devel] latest Falkon code is in SVN!

[Mihael Hategan]

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:01 -0500, Ioan Raicu wrote:
> Right, it should have warned the user that the build failed.  I don't 
> know how to use the ant build language, and I don't have time right now 
> to learn it.  If anyone wants to take a stab at reworking my compile 
> scripts into ant build scripts, I think that would be great!

Great, but unlikely. I doubt that any of us have appreciably more time
than you do. It is probably a bit unwise to count on the adoption of
Falkon if you rely on people understanding its internal details, and
doing many little things here and there. The little things tend to add
up to a lot. In our case the choice would boil down to the amount of
time we spend on Swift vs. the amount of time we spend on non-Swift.
Should Swift be perfect, the choice would be easy. But it, too, needs
many little things done here and there. And while there is undeniable
value in what Falkon does, it is not a blank check.

Mihael

> 
> BTW, about the particular error you saw, the C Executor is a new 
> experimental implementation that could replace the Java based worker 
> code and WS-based communication protocol.  If you simply remove the 
> -static option, it will likely compile; the static option is generally 
> helpful when you want to compile on one machine and take the binary 
> elsewhere.  By default, the Java executor code base is used, so even if 
> the C Executor didn't compile, Falkon could still work from the Java 
> code base.
> 
> Ioan
> 
> Ben Clifford wrote:
> > During ./make-falkon.sh I noticed this:
> >
> >   Compiling GramClient
> >   Compiling C Executor
> >   /usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt0.o
> >   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> > It didn't halt the build. It probably should. Probably better to use make 
> > and/or ant as build language.
> >
> >   
>