[Nexus] More NAPI stuff

[Eugen Wintersberger]

On 08/18/2015 07:12 PM, Campbell, Stuart I. wrote:
> The real reason for 2.8.12 is that we had a cmake course and the instructor (who is one of the main authors of cmake) told us to never use a version older than 2.8.12!  The version number doesn’t represent how much improved it is! 

I expected a lot of things, but this made my day :D

Seriously - I will have a look on some of my test systems what version
of CMake is installed there. However, I am pretty sure that I will not
create backport of CMake for my Wheezy box. We will switch to Jessie in
autumn anyhow, at which time I will claim that we have to switch to
CMake > 3.0.



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> On 8/18/15, 2:20 AM, "NeXus on behalf of Eugen Wintersberger" <nexus-bounces at nexusformat.org on behalf of eugen.wintersberger at desy.de> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> On 08/18/15 01:21, Herbert J. Bernstein wrote:
>>> I think moving up to 2.8.12 would be reasonable -- Herbert
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>>> 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.
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>> The reason why there is 2.8.8 as the minimum required version is simple:
>> it is the CMake version I have at hand on my Wheezy box in my office. On
>> my private boxes with Jessie I could go for 3.0.2 ;).
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>> I guess you are suggesting 2.8.12 because it is the version shipped with
>> Ubuntu 14.04 ;). Now, being to lazy to compare the docs between 2.8.8
>> and 2.8.12, can anyone tell me what would be the additional
>> functionality that 2.8.12 provides over 2.8.8?
>>
>> regards
>>  Eugen
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>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>> 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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