"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > I don't know autotools very good, so could you please describe a
| > little bit was one can do with this "distribution feature"?
| > Thanks,
|
| We rarely use these features. They are used for packaging and
| distributing lyx, which are primarily Lar's job. For me, I only used
| 'rpmbuild -ba lyx-xxx.tar.gz' to build a linux rpm directly from
| .tar.gz file, and sometimes run make dist to get source tar.gz files.
|
| Lars, would you please write a few words regarding these autotools
| features so that we can work towards them?
Would be better if you read the autoconf documentation. _Or_ you can
f.ex. look at the distcheck target in a Makefile generated by
autotools.
- 'distcheck' and the checking it does is important
- 'DESTDIR' is important.
- The ability to have src-dir read-only is (imho) important.
- A mechanism for running tests are important.
(And we should create more such tests)
One thing I don't like with scons is the seemingly inability to name
libraries (static ones) explictly.
- '-L<dir> -lfoo' is prone to ambiguity, <dir>/libfoo.a less so.
--
Lgb
