[Ns-developers] ns-3-allinone and NSC

[Tom Henderson]

Gustavo, thanks for implementing allinone.  Are you ready to move it to 
ns-3-allinone (from gjc/ns-3-allinone)?

Gustavo Carneiro wrote:
> Looking more closely at ns-3-allinone, which was kind of dormant, I realize
> there is an issue left unsolved regarding integration with NSC.
> 
> Currently NSC is built from within the ns-3 wscript file.  I propose to
> build NSC only from within the allinone build script, exclusively.
> 
> In addition, currently the ns-3 wscript creates symbolic links to the NSC
> libXXX.so files into the toplevel ns-3 build dir.  I think this was meant to
> allow dlopen in NscTcpL4Protocol::SetNscLibrary to be able to find the lib.
> But looking at the dlopen man page it says that LD_LIBRARY_PATH can also be
> used to specify a search path for dlopen.  In that case, I would like to
> remove the symbolic links hacks and instead add the relevant NSC subdirs to
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH for waf check/--run/--regression/--shell.  That should
> take care of the problem more elegantly.
> 
> Any objections?
> 

None from me.

- Tom