Problem 1123

Summary:	Build system.
Product:	Geant4	Reporter:	Ron Fox <fox>
Component:	config	Assignee:	Gabriele Cosmo <Gabriele.Cosmo>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	Ben.Morgan
Priority:	P5
Version:	other
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Ron Fox 2010-06-23 16:49:22 CEST

Seems that the build system is quite fragile and a pain to use.  Rather than reinventing the wheel why not use something more robust like e.g. autotools.
Specific issues are:
- Configure script does not seem to like it when the source is not in the destination tree.. though that's supposed to be supported.. you get a bad build if you try it.
- If you make an error with Configure you pretty much have to wipe the entire destination and source tree and start from scratch.

Comment 1 Gabriele Cosmo 2010-06-23 17:04:39 CEST

There're plans to evolve the current build system towards the use of a different tool.
At the moment Configure remains the supported system.