the buildsystem will now pick up and link
all test cases according to the layer, e.g.
backend tests will automatically be linked
against the backend + library solely.
tests used to be defined ad hoc and test definitions
are scattered confusingly over various directories.
Now built some simple rules into the buildsystem
to allow organising the tests into layers and
linking them accordingly.
Note: this switches to building shared objects
for the test classes too, which effectively speeds up
both re-building and re-running of test cases
Our libraries constitute a clear dependency hierarchy,
we do not want circular dependencies. Declaring these
dependencies while creating the shared libraries would
allow strict checking by the linker; but unfortunately
this also creates transitive depdendencies stored as
DT_NEEDED tags.
While basically this would be just fine, the resolution of $ORIGIN
on gets confused in case of transitively defined library dependencies
over multiple hops, especially in case when actually no symbol of this
transitive dependency is used. Since these newer systems set the
--as-needed switch for linking by default, these unnecessary
DT_NEEDED entries will be purged from the executable, but of course
not from the shared library causing the transitive dependencies.
As a consequence, when loading the executable, the $ORIGIN resolution
mechanism doesn't act on the dependencies recorded in the library,
causing the shared loader to abort with an "unresolved dependency"
So the resolution for these problems is not to use transitive
dependencies on libraries intended to be found via $ORIGIN
This is kind of a workaround to avoid having to maintain two variants.
Explanation: between Boost 1.42 and 1.52 there was the transition to a
reworked version of the filesystem library, itroducing some breaking changes
The new version distinguishes much clearer between the native and the
generic representation of paths -- which becomes relevant when porting
to non-POXIX operating systems.
Actually the intention was to use the generic path representation in all
configuration; currently this distinction is moot, since we're caring
only for POSIX systems.
So the workaround is to use the fsys::path::string() function, which
is available in both versions, but changed meaning to yield the native
string. Later, when able to deprecate older Boost versions, we should
switch to generic_string()
Note: an alternative solution was found by Mike Fisher in 3b39f35
using the compiletime define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION=2
See also ticket #896
now this library doesn't refer to any symbols from
Proc-Layer anymore. Resolving these problems
highlighted IMHO a serious shortcomming of our
interface system, which hinders the building
of abstractions at interface level
there is now a mechanism to allow sprcialised queries
to generate this syntactic representation only on demand
The actual concrete representation e.g. for scope queries
still remains TODO, but this won't really change
until we target the integration of a real resoloution engine
while refactoring, I thought it might be a good idea
only to use Query objects. But in this special case,
most often you'd just want to pass in a simple query
with a literal query string. So this convenience shortcut
indeed makes sense.
...to extract the syntetic ordering from
DefsRegistry and make that a responsibility
of the (internal) syntactic representation
of the query.
doesn't pass the compiler yet
effectively this joins the two existing lines
of "Query" classes into one systematic representation
Next step would be to move all mutation operations
over to the Query::Builder
time handling is part of the library, while this
convenience shortcut relies on the Advice system,
which resides in the application lib.
To allow this kind of symbolic acces to a grid
entity defined "elesewhere", client code needs
to be linked against liblumieracore.so
especially this allows to use the Advice system
or the query resolvers from within library facilities
to refer to other implementation level services by name
the rules-based configuration and query system
will be located within the core application,
while the concrete implementation facilities
are expected to reside within the session or
maybe also the GUI.
This is kind of a 'rochade' refactoring to resolve
circular library dependencies and confine the parts
dependant on the session and MObjects to the Proc-Layer
And while we're in the middle of chainsaw surgery,
we'll concentrate further query-based facilities
alongside the config-rules within the App core.
This template was a leftover from the early days
of Lumiera development and doesn't provide any
substantial value as an abstraction.
For the more intricate cases, we're using the
lib::MultiFact template, which allows to install
several "fabrication" functions at runtime
the solution is to introduce a superinterface
and let Dispatcher augment that with the specific parts.
This way, the Job planning only has to rely on the
rather generic stuff (TimeAnchor, FrameCoord)
NOTE: this commit makes the whole JobPlanning machinery
compilable for the first time!
