Thanks for the reply. Another person emailed me directly stating disagreement on moving things around because it would break packages. I want to move things around because various repos like slackbuilds will never accept CDE in its current state of installing to /usr/dt rather than how packages currently are installed in slackware and other distributions. If it isn't already part of the plan, part of the plan with autotools should be to allow you to specify where CDE is installed be it where a distro is supposed to install nowadays or under /usr/dt like it currently is. It would make everything fair for everyone.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 1:04 PM Jon Trulson <j...@radscan.com> wrote: > On 3/26/21 7:08 AM, Zeke Williams wrote: > > How should I start helping with porting to GNU autotools on the autotools > branch so imake can be removed and CDE installs in proper directories > rather than under /usr/dt. Should I just delete the current imake files and > make a fresh autoconf setup by scratch? Or what should I do? > > > Currently we have a separate branch for autotools work: > autotools-conversion > > So, I'd start by checking out that branch and going from there. We have > already made quite a bit of progress - most of it already builds and runs > on linux. > > The remaining pieces are dtinfo and the documentation. > > Also, testing on other linux flavors, fbsd, openbsd, etc... > > Do not delete any of the imake stuff in there yet - I will handle that > when the time comes. It is not being used in that branch but it helps to > be able to reference it as development proceeds. > > No doubt there is still plenty to do/cleanup. As for moving the files > around (/usr/dt/ etc) I'd prefer to wait on that stuff until we can at > least get it all building and matching current master CDE in functionality > and running on the same OS's. Then we can merge it to master and begin > making those kinds of changes. > > > > -- > Jon Trulson > > "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." > -- Sheldon > > _______________________________________________ > cdesktopenv-devel mailing list > cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel >
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