[Click] Patch: nsclick as a dynamic library

[Eddie Kohler]

Applied!
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Michael Voorhaen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've manually made the changes to Click CVS and it works fine.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Thursday 02 March 2006 13:28, Bart Braem wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>For those of you who do not like recompiling ns with every change in Click
>>this might be an interesting patch. This one is against Click 1.4.3 but I
>>guess it should be very similar for Click CVS.
>>
>>To use it you should apply the patch (of course). Afterwards you should
>>certainly remove /ns/libnsclick.a and do a make clean in Click. Then run
>>your configure again and the new Makefile is generated.
>>Then you should either remove ns and nse or do a make clean in the ns
>>distribution if you want to be very sure. Running make in the ns directory
>>will then make your new ns that load Click dynamically.
>>In order to run ns you should either install the library system wide, add
>>it to ld.so.conf (and run ldconfig) or use LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
>>I use that one, so going to tcl/ex in the ns distribution one should run
>>Click as follows:
>>LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/somepathtoyourclickslashns/ ../../ns
>>nsclick-simple-lan.tcl
>>Try changing something in Click, run make in click/ns and run ns: without
>>recompiling ns you should be able to use the changed Click!
>>
>>Any comments welcome, as usual
>>Bart
>>
>>--- ns/Makefile.in.orig 2006-03-02 13:09:36.000000000 +0100
>>+++ ns/Makefile.in      2006-03-01 11:35:19.000000000 +0100
>>@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@
>> .SUFFIXES: .S .c .cc .o .s .ii
>>
>> .c.o:
>>-       $(COMPILE) -c $<
>>+       $(COMPILE) -c -fpic $<
>> .s.o:
>>-       $(COMPILE) -c $<
>>+       $(COMPILE) -c -fpic $<
>> .S.o:
>>-       $(COMPILE) -c $<
>>+       $(COMPILE) -c -fpic $<
>> .cc.o:
>>-       $(CXXCOMPILE) -c $<
>>+       $(CXXCOMPILE) -c -fpic $<
>> .cc.ii:
>>        $(CXXCOMPILE) -E $< > $@
>>
>>@@ -79,11 +79,10 @@
>> CCLD = $(CC)
>> LINK = $(CCLD) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@
>>
>>-all: libnsclick.a
>>+all: libnsclick.so
>>
>>-libnsclick.a: Makefile $(LIBOBJS) $(OBJS)
>>-       $(AR_CREATE) libnsclick.a $(LIBOBJS) $(OBJS)
>>-       $(RANLIB) libnsclick.a
>>+libnsclick.so: Makefile $(LIBOBJS) $(OBJS)
>>+       $(CXX) -shared -o libnsclick.so $(LIBOBJS) $(OBJS)
>>
>> Makefile: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
>>        cd $(top_builddir) \
>>@@ -105,14 +104,14 @@
>> include $(DEPFILES)
>> endif
>>
>>-install: libnsclick.a
>>+install: libnsclick.so
>>        $(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)
>>-       $(INSTALL) libnsclick.a $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libnsclick.a
>>+       $(INSTALL) libnsclick.so $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libnsclick.so
>> uninstall:
>>-       /bin/rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libnsclick.a
>>+       /bin/rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/libnsclick.so
>>
>> clean:
>>-       rm -f *.d *.o elements.mk elements.cc elements.conf libnsclick.a
>>+       rm -f *.d *.o elements.mk elements.cc elements.conf libnsclick.so
>> distclean: clean
>>        -rm -f Makefile
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