Re: autotools & prayertime

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at bamdad dot org> wrote:
>
> Well a Makefile.cvs gives you more flexibility to add more 'features'
> and options - like 'make -f Makefile.cvs reallyClean' :-)

The reason I do not like these more 'features' and options is
that we all like package management options that are unified so
that when you download a tarball or checkout from cvs, you do not
need to read README, README.cvs, or the Makefiles in order to
findout what is what.  BTW, I have never seen projects cleaning
all those files.  Usually people put many of them in CVS itself.
But seems ArabEyes CVS is organized the other way.  I should look
around more next time (I work on fribidi).


behdad

> > >  2. Add a 'clean' option to the Makefile.cvs so that it goes back to the
> > >     pristine condition things were in before running 'make -f
> > Makefile.cvs'.
> >
> > When you have your Makefile out of configure, you can do
> > make maintainer-clean.
>
> That doesn't clean everything, but its a start.  No worries, we'll add
> our own directives and cleaners :-)

Comments above.

> > >  3. All projects that incorporate autotools (and all are going in that
> > >     direction), then the projects should put all its source files in
> > >     a ./src directory and the documentations in ./doc, etc.
> >
> > Are you talking politically, ideally, ..? ;)
>
> Never politically :-)  I think the dir would look cleaner and make more
> sense if files were put in more appropriate places.  I think ./src, ./lib
> and ./doc are standard.
>
> > > Using -- autoconf-2.57, automake-1.7.9, libtool-1.5
> > >
> > > BTW: on linux I have no issues; the above 3 points would be nice to see.
> > >      I also don't see 'fribidi' for instance using "libtoolize", is our
> > >      process over-complicated compared to their 'bootstrap' ?
> >
> > libtoolize is something like autoscan.  It should be run just
> > once at the very beginning.
>
> Sounds like I have lots to read and follow-up on.
>
> Thanks & Salam.
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
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