improved build system, improved buffer sizes for large number of input samples

Author: marekkokot

.dockerignore

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 !/postprocessing
 !/build_tools
 !Makefile
+!refresh.mk
 !download_kmc.py
 !hash.git
 !.git/

Dockerfile

@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@
-FROM ubuntu:23.10
+FROM ubuntu:24.04
 
 WORKDIR /home/ubuntu
 
+# designed to be used from build_docker.py, if not specified will be not set for `make`
+# I'm using below syntax ${PLATFORM:+PLATFORM=$PLATFORM} which will add PLATFORM=... only if PLATFORM was defined
+ARG PLATFORM
+
 #it seems docker v 24 works, but v 20 does not because of the rules in dockerignore
 COPY . src
 RUN  \
     apt-get update -y \
-    && apt-get install -y cmake make python3 g++ wget time git \
+    && apt-get install -y cmake make automake python3 g++ wget time git \
     && cp -r src build \ 
 	&& cd build \
-	&& make -j \
+	&& make ${PLATFORM:+PLATFORM=$PLATFORM} -j \
 	&& make install \
 	&& cd .. \
 	&& rm -rf build \
-	&& apt-get remove -y cmake make wget g++ git \
+	&& apt-get remove -y cmake make automake wget g++ git \
 	&& apt-get autoremove -y \
 	&& apt-get clean \
 	&& rm -rf src/.git \