On Tuesday 29 December 2009 11:57:53 SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > I regenerate "configure" with: > > make configure > > > > there is nothing that I know of that is simpler than that. > > I have got a different opinion because of available improvements for the > current autoconf tools. Would you like to be able to create the > configuration script without a previous make file?
No. This is not necessary, since it is a "simple" one line command that I use about once a year in the *rare* case that there is no Makefile and no ./configure. > > (The command "autoreconf" provides this capability.) > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#autoreconf-Invoca >tion http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=177 > > How do you think about to drop the generated scripts from your source code > repository? If by the above, you are talking about the autoconf system, no, we don't want to waste any time with changes to the autoconf system except what is *absolutely* necessary, fixes a bug, or adds a specific new feature. We will continue working with the current system, which has functioned well over the last 10 years (though it is overly complicated). That said, at some point, we are going to switch from the GNU autoconf tools to cmake. However, this will not happen until cmake is a "standard" package on more systems. We will most likely switch our Win32 cross-compile build from using GNU Makefiles (it doesn't use configure, but it does require GNU make features) to use cmake well before the rest of the source code. This is a project that I wouldn't mind seeing someone take on now. Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
