[Nexus] More NAPI stuff

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

I think moving up to 2.8.12 would be reasonable -- Herbert

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Peterson, Peter F. <petersonpf at ornl.gov> wrote:
> After some searching I found a way to find hdf4 on my system.
>
> What do people think of moving the minimum cmake version to 2.8.12? This
> would give a lot more functionality to cmake.
>
> On 8/17/15, 10:23 AM, "NeXus on behalf of Tobias Richter"
> <nexus-bounces at nexusformat.org on behalf of Tobias.Richter at esss.se> wrote:
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>>> On 17 Aug 2015, at 15:42, Koennecke Mark (PSI) <mark.koennecke at psi.ch>
>>>wrote:
>>>> I have already recognized this WITH_XXX stuff. There is a bit chaos
>>>> concerning the configuration headers. Sometimes the code uses
>>>>nxconfig.h
>>>> and on other places napiconfig.h. I'am not really sure if this has
>>>> historical reasons or if this is done intentionally.
>>>> In the former case I would suggest to clean this up and go for a single
>>>> configuration header.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think that this is historical. I never dealt with those config.h
>>>files, they came with whatever
>>> build system we are using. I think cleaning this up is the right
>>>solution. Or do you object, Freddie?
>>
>>Well, apparently nxconfig.h is generated from scratch by autotools and
>>napiconfig.h includes nxconfig.h plus stdint and inttypes, if available
>>as determined by the nxconfig.h defines. (It also does some VMS and
>>Windows magic that I am not interested in.) But napiconfig.h is the
>>fronted file to look at.
>>
>>That looks like a reasonable thing to do in the autotools world. I cannot
>>see nxconfig.h included directly anywhere, but is (correctly) mentioned
>>in Makefiles as a dependency.
>>
>>If there is a way to combine those files (napiconfig.h and nxconfig.h)
>>with cmake, that obviously makes things simpler, though. Go for it.
>>
>>Tobias
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