[Pvfs2-developers] compiling statecomp

[Rob Ross]

(As an aside) fixing statecomp so that you don't have to declare new 
states would be a nice simplification.

Rob

Pete Wyckoff wrote:
> slang at mcs.anl.gov wrote on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:07 -0600:
 >
>> The few times I've ever changed statecomp it was to change the
>> generated as well, so I would have always wanted to have this
>> dependency.  Though doing make clean for the few cases where
>> statecomp gets changed isn't a big deal either.  What are you
>> changing in statecomp that doesn't result in changes to the
>> generated files?  Just restructuring and cleanup?
> 
> I keep forgetting to "declare" a new state in the machine line.
> smcgen touches the output file, but exits with error.  Make gets
> confused.  I was planning to rip out the need to pre-declare these
> states but got sidetracked into build issues of statecomp itself.
> 
> Note: "make clean" doesn't remove the SMC generated files, but it
> does remove statecomp generated sources.  DIST_RELEASE changes this
> behavior to leave around the statecomp generated sources.  Just fyi.