Autotools build about magma HOT 4 CLOSED

Current status:

I did a good bit of work on this on this branch, which also includes work related to #25 and #19.

I now have a more targeted branch intended to focus on just the build. This branch also includes the fixes in #8 and #23 as they are necessary to build without ignoring compiler warnings. More detailed docs will follow, but the magmad.so build is now intended to run in its own folder so that build artifacts don't get mingled with the sources and patches that live in lib.

The autotools build is intended to be as simple as possible as a starting point. It builds a static magma library that is linked against the entry point in magma.c, and the same library links against the test executable.

Currently I am able to build magmad.so, the magma daemon, and the tests on my local Arch install, and I can run the tests with no failures.

I still need to define and document what additional capabilities are necessary to achieve feature parity with the eclipse/VM environment (e.g., testing with valgrind).

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Also note that the symbols table for symbols defined in magmad.so has changed. Since I'm sharing a static library for the daemon and the tests, and magma.c includes magma.h (and hence symbols.h), I get multiple definition issues on link (even with __attribute__((common))). Same story for the tests. I've changed symbols.h so that they're declared as extern (without __attribute__((common))), and they're now defined/initialized in symbols.c. Please let me know if there are issues with this approach -- I'm aware that it does result in more boilerplate, but the other approach seems to make it pretty difficult to split the build up.

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Short of getting with Ladar on this, I'm not sure how we'd know. Maybe we start with a fresh VM, build using eclipse with access to your branch and see if removing ((common)) has some side effects on the build or console compiler warning output. Don't know.

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The build has been migrated to autotools thanks to Zach's large body of work. All of this work now lives on the develop branch.

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