[Yt-dev] libconfig wrapper testing

[Matthew Turk]

Awesome, thanks Jeff.  I didn't quite mention it in the email, but
testing this is a backdoor for finding out if it will also work on the
platforms Enzo runs on, so anybody else that would be able to test,
it'd be a huge help!

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:31 PM, j s oishi <jsoishi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried on my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop, and things worked just fine.
> There were a few warnings regarding locales, and a few minor things:
>
> grammar.y:50: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype
> grammar.y:51: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype
> gcc: yt/utilities/_libconfig/libconfig.c
> yt/utilities/_libconfig/libconfig.c:100:2: warning: #warning "No way
> to modify calling thread's locale!"
> yt/utilities/_libconfig/libconfig.c:121:2: warning: #warning "No way
> to modify calling thread's locale!"
> gcc: yt/utilities/libconfig_wrapper.c
> yt/utilities/libconfig_wrapper.c: In function
> ‘__pyx_pf_2yt_9utilities_17libconfig_wrapper_22libconfigConfiguration_get_setting’:
> yt/utilities/libconfig_wrapper.c:936: warning: assignment discards
> qualifiers from pointer target type
> gcc: yt/utilities/_libconfig/scanner.c
>
> but it worked no problem.
>
> j
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've added a wrapper for libconfig, along with a slightly modified
>> version of the (LGPL'd, credits and license all included) libconfig
>> source itself, to the current development tip.  (The modification is
>> to force all integers to be read as 64-bit.)  By default it is turned
>> off, because of an issue with locale setting for reading/writing
>> floating point values.
>>
>> If I could get a few people, next time they update, to open up
>> yt/utilities/setup.py and change:
>>
>> INSTALL_LIBCONFIG_WRAPPER = 0
>>
>> to
>>
>> INSTALL_LIBCONFIG_WRAPPER = 1
>>
>> and just see if it builds, that would be extremely helpful.  The issue
>> here is that it's not clear to me if the file "xlocale.h" is going to
>> be present on all systems; I've located it on all of the systems I've
>> tested on so far, but that is not many.  If it doesn't work for you,
>> that'd be really good to know.  Worse comes to worse and we can
>> disable the locale code completely, but that worries me a bit.
>>
>> I'm in the process of documenting how to use the libconfig wrapper,
>> but for the next few days it's not being used by anything in yt.
>>
>> Thanks for any testing ...
>>
>> -Matt
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