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Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 1, 2006, 22:04 UTC
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<8fe92b430607011504t6987b207kbe27640206755af1@mail.gmail.com>
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<20060701213305.GA29115@pasky.or.cz>
On 7/1/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> Dear diary, on Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 08:23:31PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
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>> It would have been a bit easier to swallow if this whole
>> machinery to build config.mk were somewhere under contrib/ (say
>> in contrib/autoconf), with an instruction to make an "opt-in"
>> symlink "ln -s contrib/autoconf/config.mk config.mk" for people
>> who want to use it in the toplevel INSTALL file, perhaps.
>
> Well, I don't get the point of that - it doesn't make any sense to me to
> require this.
>
> The point of ./configure is to make things easier for the user, so to
> balance that we should make the ./configure harder to _call_ by requiring
> the user to do strange arbitrary steps after calling it.

Easiest way is to output ./configure result to e.g. configure.mak.autoconf, and include this file just before configure.mak in main Makefile.

Just as in patches (although you have to discard or revert two alternate mechanism patches)

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Previous: Pavel Roskin
Message 30 of 30 in “autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak”
  1. autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.makJakub Narebski, Jun 29, 2006
  2. Uwe ZeisbergerJun 29, 2006
  3. autoconf: Use autoconf to check for libraries: openssl/crypto, curl, expatJakub Narebski, Jun 29, 2006
  4. autoconf: Use autoconf to check for some types and library functionsJakub Narebski, Jun 29, 2006
  5. autoconf: Cleanup generation of config.mak.append by ./configureJakub Narebski, Jun 29, 2006
  6. Allow INSTALL, bindir, mandir to be set in main MakefileJakub Narebski, Jun 29, 2006
  7. autoconf: Set mandir in config.mak.in and export variables not in MakefileJakub Narebski, Jun 29, 2006
  8. autoconf: configure.ac uses variables to set in, out and temp filesJakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  9. autoconf: ./configure script outputs to config.mac.autoJakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  10. autoconf: Cleanup generation of temporary "append" fileJakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  11. autoconf: Write how to use ./configure generated file in git build processJakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  12. autoconf: Rename ./configure output file to config.mak.autogenJakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  13. Revert "autoconf: Write how to use ./configure generated file in git build process"Jakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  14. autoconf: Append '-include config.mak.autogen' to config.mak if it is not presentJakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  15. Jakub NarebskiJun 30, 2006
  16. autoconf: Added --with/--without for openssl, curl, expat to ./configureJakub Narebski, Jun 30, 2006
  17. Pavel RoskinJun 30, 2006
  18. Jakub NarebskiJun 30, 2006
  19. Jakub NarebskiJun 30, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2006
  21. Jakub NarebskiJun 29, 2006
  22. Matthias LederhoferJun 29, 2006
  23. Jakub NarebskiJun 29, 2006
  24. Andreas EricssonJun 30, 2006
  25. Jakub NarebskiJun 30, 2006
  26. Jakub NarebskiJul 1, 2006
  27. Junio C HamanoJun 29, 2006
  28. Jakub NarebskiJul 1, 2006
  29. Pavel RoskinJul 8, 2006
  30. Jakub NarebskiJul 1, 2006

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