# configure.ac and friends could use some love

4 messages from 2009-06-01 to 2009-06-05. Participants: C.J. Adams-Collier, Andreas Ericsson, Jakub Narebski, Ralf Wildenhues.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/19630

## C.J. Adams-Collier, 2009-06-01 21:41

Subject: configure.ac and friends could use some love
Message-ID: <1243892495.5366.11.camel@norseth>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1243892495.5366.11.camel%40norseth

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with whom should I co-ordinate?


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## Andreas Ericsson, 2009-06-02 06:26

Subject: Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love
Message-ID: <4A24C60C.3000600@op5.se>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A24C60C.3000600%40op5.se
In-Reply-To: <1243892495.5366.11.camel@norseth>

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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, 2009-06-02 10:16

Subject: Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:
> 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 ;-)

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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Jakub Narebski
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## Ralf Wildenhues, 2009-06-05 16:16

Subject: Re: configure.ac and friends could use some love
Message-ID: <loom.20090605T161436-309@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20090605T161436-309%40post.gmane.org
In-Reply-To: <m3zlcr9c0a.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

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Jakub Narebski writes:
> 
> 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

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