Re: [GD-DEVEL] `make dist` failure

Hi Mike,

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 March 2008, Pierre Joye wrote:
>  > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > > the top level Makefile.am declares a bunch of files in EXTRA_DIST that
>  > > dont exist in cvs (like the README files) or a bunch of files that prob
>  > > dont make sense (like configure.pl)
>  >
>  > GD 2.1 and up has a new source directories structure (HEAD in CVS).
>  > The configure script has to be updated to fully match this change.
>
>  i am using HEAD and that is where files are missing.  look at the EXTRA_DIST
>  variable in src/Makefile.am and it refers to a bunch of files that do not
>  exist.  the bdftogd script missing is certainly bad.  configure.ac is not
>  involved at all.

bdftogd is still in src/ as far as I can see. Other are missing. I
don't they are all still used (ie. makefile.sample). Maybe they are
some rest of old releases, a cleanup seems to be necessary.

>
>
>  > I sadly had no time to do it (and not really enough clue about the auto*
>  > script :).
>
>  feel free to post questions to the list and i'll answer them if i see them.

My main question is how to move the configure.ac (and related files)
to the root and add the respective sub directories like src/ examples/
etc.

The second question is about keeping the auto* scripts or simply drop
them. CMake supports now crosscompilation, that was a must have for
many developers (especially for embedded systems) and was also a
stopping point. I have no problem to keep the auto* scripts but I will
need help to keep them in a workable state. Lars does a fantastic job
and will certainly be very happy to get help in this area.

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre
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