Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2009, 10:16 UTC
Message-ID: <m3zlcr9c0a.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <4A24C60C.3000600@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:

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> > with whom should I co-ordinate?
> >
> 
> git@vger and Jakub Narebski.
> 
>   git shortlog -ns -- configure.ac
> 
> would have told you as much ;-)

While it is true that I was behind adding ./configure support to git in optional and non-intrusive way (configure.ac and config.mak.in), mainly to be able to use %configure macro in git.spec -- which never materialized, I lack in my opinion expertise in autoconf to be a maintainer for those scripts.

David Syzdek offered to help or take the brunt of the work on our
autoconf corner, see e.g. this post:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111923
but he wanted help of someone whom is familiar with the interaction
between the Makefile and configure.ac... which never materialized.

Instead of git-shortlog, you should take a look at git-blame output who is responsible for more advanced corners of configure.ac: David M. Syzydek (GIT_CHECK_FUNC), Ben Walton (GIT_STASH_FLAGS), Ralf Wildenhues (caching support), etc.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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