A generic CORBA wrapper is going to be complicated. Here's my 2p
worth. This may be more appropriate to automake than autoconf...
Ruslan Shevchenko writes:
> 1. different ORB use different extensions.
>
> what mean .idl_c.hh : idl 2 c and hh ?
> can it be somethin like:
> idl_$(CORBA_CPP_EXT).$(CORBA_H_EXT)
> ?
> If yes, then I will include $(CORBA_CXX_EXT).$(CORBA_H_EXT) in
> next revision of CORBA macroses.
>
For portabality you would need at least six variables (examples for
TAO given), which you could use as you suggest.
IDL_CXX_CLIENT_HEADER_EXT = C.h
IDL_CXX_CLIENT_SOURCE_EXT = C.cpp
IDL_CXX_SERVER_HEADER_EXT = S.h
IDL_CXX_SERVER_SOURCE_EXT = S.cpp
IDL_CXX_TIE_HEADER_EXT = _T.h
IDL_CXX_TIE_SOURCE_EXT = _T.cpp
It may be a good idea to choose standard suffixes and then coerce the
idl compiler to produce them (using a wrapper script if necessary).
> 2. different ORB generate different set of output files.
>
> > source='$<' object='$*_c.hh $*_s.hh $*_c.cpp $*_s.cpp $*C.i $*S.i' \
>
> In "generalized" my views, it looks, like:
> source='$<' object='$*'$(IDL_CLN_H_SUFFIX) \
> '$*'$(IDL_CLN_CPP_SUFFIX) '$*'$(IDL_SRV_H_SUFFIX) \
> '$*'$(IDL_SVR_CPP_SUFFIX) \
> [pseudocode:] $(IDL_CLN_H1_SUFFIX) if it is not "no" \
> ....
>
> O'key, in principle is possible.
> Can such string be generated automatically by automake ?
This is the same problem as above. I have recently submitted patches
to automake to give patsubst style substitution which would do the
job.
>
> 2. How to determinate, what generated source needed for client
> and what to server (?). Usially I needs in separate Client
> and Server+Client set of files, defined in Makefiles{.in,.am}
> In case of using idldept we need in special
> separate utility for this ? Can you think a little on this topic,
> and help me to decide: where it must be called and what it must
> produce.
>
Now thats a hard question :)
> 3. What means deptmode ?
>
Its included in CVS automake to to dependency checking.
> 4. different ORB use different names for compilers.
> It can be $(IDL2CXX) $(IDLFLAGS) $< ?
>
Yes, something like that.
Cheers,
Alex
