Re: Removal of the autotools-based build system
Davi Arnaut <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.mysql.devel,gmane.comp.db.mysql.packagers |
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| Organization | Oracle Corporation |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Alex, On 11/8/10 11:37 AM, Alex Esterkin wrote: > What you should do is instead of removing configure.in, you should convert > it to configure.ac. Typically, configure.ac files are orders of magnitude > smaller than the corresponding configure.in files. I'm sorry, but I do not understand your argument. configure.ac and configure.in are the same thing. Quoting from the autoconf manual: "Previous versions of Autoconf promoted the name `configure.in', which is somewhat ambiguous (the tool needed to produce this file is not described by its extension), and introduces a slight confusion with `config.h.in' and so on (for which `.in' means "to be processed by configure"). Using `configure.ac' is now preferred." > I suggest that you: > > - Replace configure.in with configure.ac > - Remove configure.in and configure, as they can be generated from > configure.ac They are the same thing. > - Remove all Makefile files as they can be generated from Makefile.am > files. We already do this. > In conclusion, I have to say that your plans to stop maintaining autotools > based make system and to remove it are arrogant and inconsiderate of the > MySQL Community. How so? We are actually making life easier for others in the community. We are unifying everything under a single build system. Regards, Davi -- MySQL Internals Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/internals To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[email protected]