[Yt-dev] libconfig wrapper testing

[Chris Malone]

Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly needs to be rebuilt?  I pulled and
updated from hg, but I'm not sure what I need to do (outside of changing the
install flag) to test this...

Chris

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:15 AM, 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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