[reSIProcate] Autotools after the directory reorg

[Robert Sparks]

Jay -

I've pretty much given up on an autotools based parallel build system.

While there are a few things that it does that the custom build  
system doesn't do,
the warts that come with it appear to be  too much for most of this  
development
community to live with. I'm going to try to see if putting effort  
into getting it to do
those things will pay off better than trying to maintain the extra  
build system.

Among those are:

+ being able to build separate pieces of the project independently,  
leveraging
    other parts that may already be built. (The current notion of all  
the projects having
    to live in particular relative places in the filesystem is  
something we need to address).

+ being able to configure against different instances of third party  
dependencies.
    (such as different versions of bdb as you were running into below).
    This needs to be scriptable (being able to specify everything on  
the configure
    command line is sufficient).

+ making sure that the resulting built libraries can be _used_ from  
other autotools
    based projects without having to "install" them.

What else is missing from your perspective?

RjS


On Oct 8, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Jay Hogg wrote:

> Dev Group,
>
> This may seem like a delayed response but I held off on updating after
> the re-org because I had a working project I was trying to get
> finished.  Today I updated and everything built correctly using the
> Vovida build system - except repro kept aborting on Berkley.  Turns  
> out
> it was picking up the db4 headers and the db4.2 libraries (I'm on  
> Gentoo).
>
> So I went to switch to Autotools to see if it got everything correctly
> without hacks.  Bad move. Autotools is still assuming the pre-reog
> directory structure.
>
> I'm willing to put the time in to get everything back running under
> Autotools but some questions...
>
> 1) Is there still interest in using/supporting autotools?
>
> 2) At one time you were moving this direction - is there a preferred
> build system in the future?
>
> 3) Would you take the patches if I put them together?
>
> Moving forward, the new directory structure breaks the current  
> autotools
> partitioning between "stack/dum" and "repro" vs rutil because you  
> can't
> have a dependancy one level up the tree - configure would have to run
> from main to encompass rutil.  Thoughts/concerns/ideas?
>
> Jay
>
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