Hi all, I am Jean Parpaillon, new on the mailing list and extensive user of autotools. I am now developing mostly with erlang and I'd like to use autotools as well with my erlang projects. What's available today is: - rebar[0]: a pure erlang solutions. External languages can be compiled through hooks but conditional builds, options, etc (like provides autoconf) is really limited. - erlang.mk: a pure Makefile solutions. Basic usage: set some variables and includes erlang.mk in your Makefile. - autoconf erlang support: autoconf provides some macros for getting/setting erlang build environment.
What I'd like would be to use autoconf + automake in my projects, as to benefit from options, integration with other languages (my projects includes C, Python, XSL, etc). I am interested in contributing to automake but I would need: - some entry points: I have read some .am files in [2] and I suppose I would need to add rules in there but I don't see documentation on internal automake APIs. I also suppose I would need to add language declaration in [3]. - some guidance on how to design the erlang related rules wrt automake ones. erlang platform comes with a precise project structure. Each application has the following structure: /src -> source files /ebin -> build .beam files /mibs -> for MIBs, in case of SNMP application /priv -> other files In case a software is made of several applications, each application, with above structure, is put in /apps/app1, /apps/app2, etc directory. Would it be acceptable to base the automake erlang rules on a single Makefile per app with, for instance the following variables: erlang_APP = myapp myapp_MODULES = myapp.erl mymodule1.erl mymodule2.erl ... ... Any help for starting would be welcome :) Regards, Jean [0] https://github.com/rebar/rebar [1] https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/lib/am [3] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/bin/automake.in -- Jean Parpaillon Open Source Consultant Phone: +33 6 30 10 92 86 im: jean.parpail...@gmail.com skype: jean.parpaillon linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanparpaillon/en
