magic (version 6.3) and lightly edited it to make it compatible
with version 8.3. Edited the scmos/Makefile so that it installs
with the rest of the distributed tech files.
preproc.py script from another project. Had to further develop it to
get around the amazingly complicated preprocessor usage in the scmos
subdirectory. Needed to add handling of parameterized definitions;
could not figure out how to align the syntax used in scmos/extract_template
with any consistent syntax. Gave up and rewrote some of the contents of
extract_template to avoid the more ambiguous usage. All of this is to
support a completely deprecated scmos.tech. However, it does avoid both
the M4 and cpp preprocessors altogether. Also did auto-detection of
python3 in the configure script for use of the preproc.py preprocessor,
and applied the same preprocessor to the macro definitions.
distributed installations, where the immediate installation location
is different from the final installation location, but in the case
where it is not desirable to put the entire install hierarchy as a
subdirectory of DESTDIR.
the python preprocessor version, the techfiles and .magicrc file
will get the correct arguments, without affecting the use of CPP
in the configure script.
python3 preprocessor is captured in the variable MCPP, not CPP,
since CPP is meaningful to the make process. Also, the
MAGICDIR variable in the name needed to be escaped so that the
variable is not evaluated within the configure script.
development had been halted since it was first created back in April.
Version 8.2 is now the official development version, with the first
development push to create a Cairo graphics interface.
Darryl L. Miles
Tim Edwards
Chuan Chen