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configure.ac and friends could use some love

Subject: configure.ac and friends could use some love

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4 messages between Jun 1, 2009 and Jun 5, 2009.

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C.J. Adams-Collier· Jun 1, 2009, 21:41 UTC · lore

with whom should I co-ordinate?

Andreas Ericsson· Jun 2, 2009, 06:26 UTC · re: C.J. Adams-Collier · lore

Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love

C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:

> with whom should I co-ordinate?
>

git@vger and Jakub Narebski.

  git shortlog -ns -- configure.ac

would have told you as much ;-)

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Jakub Narebski· Jun 2, 2009, 10:16 UTC · re: Andreas Ericsson · lore

Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love

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.

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Ralf Wildenhues· Jun 5, 2009, 16:16 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love

Jakub Narebski writes:

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> 
> 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.

While I don't have the time to read git@ regularly and be a good maintainer of its configure.ac and friends, I'm certainly willing to answer all autotools related questions. Please Cc: me on them.

Cheers, Ralf