Re: [PATCH] Add --with-tcltk and --without-tcltk to configure.

> Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru> writes:
> 
> > --with-tcltk enables the search of the Tcl/Tk interpreter. If no
> > interpreter is found then Tcl/Tk dependend parts are disabled.
> >
> > --without-tcltk unconditionally disables Tcl/Tk dependent parts.
> >
> > The original behaviour is not changed: bare './configure' just
> > installs the Tcl/Tk part doing no checks for the interpreter.
> >
> > Makefile knob named NO_TCLTK was introduced. It prevents the build
> > and installation of the Tcl/Tk dependent parts.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-git@codelabs.ru>
> > ---
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Is this supposed to be the first in the series?  I thought you
> said you were going to do NO_TCLTK without anything else at all
> first, and then TCLTK_PATH patch.  I am a bit lost here.
>
> > +# Define NO_TCLTK if you do not want Tcl/Tk GUI.
> > +#
> > +# The TCLTK_PATH variable governs the location of the Tck/Tk interpreter.
> > +# If not set it defaults to the bare 'wish'. If it is set to the empty
> > +# string then NO_TCLTK will be forced (this is used by configure script).
> > +#
> 
> Grumble.  If you are doing this, then there is not much point to
> have two separate patches, is it?

> 
> > @@ -684,7 +696,9 @@ ifneq (,$X)
> >  endif
> >  
> >  all::
> > +ifndef NO_TCLTK
> >  	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)git-gui $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) all
> > +endif
> >  	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)perl $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) PERL_PATH='$(PERL_PATH_SQ)' prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' all
> >  	$(QUIET_SUBDIR0)templates $(QUIET_SUBDIR1)
> 
> Although you were not supposed to be talking about paths, since
> you've already introduced TCLTK_PATH, it should be passed down
> to git-gui here, I think.

> 
> > @@ -955,11 +974,17 @@ dist: git.spec git-archive
> >  	@mkdir -p $(GIT_TARNAME)
> >  	@cp git.spec $(GIT_TARNAME)
> >  	@echo $(GIT_VERSION) > $(GIT_TARNAME)/version
> > +ifndef NO_TCLTK
> >  	@$(MAKE) -C git-gui TARDIR=../$(GIT_TARNAME)/git-gui dist-version
> >  	$(TAR) rf $(GIT_TARNAME).tar \
> >  		$(GIT_TARNAME)/git.spec \
> >  		$(GIT_TARNAME)/version \
> >  		$(GIT_TARNAME)/git-gui/version
> > +else
> > +	$(TAR) rf $(GIT_TARNAME).tar \
> > +		$(GIT_TARNAME)/git.spec \
> > +		$(GIT_TARNAME)/version
> > +endif
> >  	@rm -rf $(GIT_TARNAME)
> >  	gzip -f -9 $(GIT_TARNAME).tar
> >  
> 
> Why should a source distribution exclude git-gui/ directory?  I
> think it is sensible to ship a source that contains all.  You
> are shipping gitk even without NO_TCLTK anyway, too.

> And from the part 2:
> 
> > @@ -705,6 +709,12 @@ endif
> >  strip: $(PROGRAMS) git$X
> >  	$(STRIP) $(STRIP_OPTS) $(PROGRAMS) git$X
> >  
> > +gitk-wish: gitk GIT-GUI-VARS
> > +	$(QUIET_GEN)rm -f $@ $@+ && \
> > +	sed -e'1,3s|^exec .* "$$0"|exec $(subst |,'\|',$(TCLTK_PATH_SQ)) "$$0"|' < gitk > $@+ && \
> > +	chmod +x $@+ && \
> > +	mv -f $@+ $@
> > +
> 
> This subst() is a nice attention to the detail.  I like it,
> although in practice I do not think anybody is insane enough to
> have a pipe character in the directory name that leads to wish.

> 
> I separated your two patches into three with minor modifications
> and parked them in 'pu'.  We need to arrange with Shawn when to
> apply the git-gui/ parts of the patch to his tree, but we are
> not in a rush.