State of TOOLSRC?

Hi,

I am currently looking into the sapdb/TOOLSRC directory, both as an
exercise with the GNU auto* tools, and with an eye to attempting a NetBSD
port.

The tools under this directory are in an, um, interesting state. Two
examples for many:

(1) the toplevel configure.ac has a hand-crafted macro that bails out if
C++ sizeof bool != 1. This is pretty unportable (sample: NetBSD/sparc - 4,
NetBSD/macppc - 4, Apple MacOS X - 4) to probably any RISC cpu.
If you need sizeof bool == sizeof char, you probably shouldn't use bool in
that place, anyway.

(2) ./sys/src/base has a 'Makedef.in' from which the configure script is
expected to create a 'Makedef', but in the same directory there is already
a 'Makedef' *directory* with sample Makedef.XXX files.
Which makes for interesting error messages...


So, TOOLSRC looks like it could use some work. Has the cvs source state
ever built? Has it built on any cpu besides i386? On any OS besides a linux
based one? Are there any guidelines on how to contribute to this area of
the sapdb project? Where can I send patches, how should they be set up, how
can I get an idea of overall structure?

	hauke

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