[reSIProcate] trunk migrated to autotools build system (r9487)

[Scott Godin]

I guess part of the problem here is that in order for us autotools newbie's
to try out the new build system, and provide feedback, we need to see some
good documentation and understand how to do things we used to do with old
build system, otherwise we are just fumbling around for hours to figure
things out.  : )

Scott

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au> wrote:

>
>
> On 16/04/12 20:18, Adam Roach wrote:
> > I think I sent my earlier message too quickly. The information at the
> > end of INSTALL doesn't seem quite correct either, as it continues to
> > refer to the old build system as well.
>
> The change in documentation is probably the last stage of the conversion
> and I make no claim that these are the final documents, as there are
> details still to be fine tuned.  E.g. Scott had a play with it and
> suggested making some components optional, so I did that.  Now you can
> do things like
>
>  ./configure --with-apps
>
> All these new things have to be documented before a 1.8 release.
>
> > I'm also, as an autotools non-expert, quite confused about what I need
> > to do to go from a virgin checkout to a working binary. The README file
> > needs to be updated to reflect this process.
>
> The INSTALL file is also very brief: for example, in step (a), it tells
> you to run autoreconf.  I could add more details, for example, you need
> to make sure your system has autoconf and automake packages already, e.g.
>
> # apt-get install autoconf automake libtool
> ...
> $ autoreconf --install
>
> There is also a question of giving the right information to the right
> audience.  I don't have access to stats from the web server, but has
> anyone looked at them to work out the percentage of users who follow
> trunk, compared to the number of users who just use the tarballs?
>
> People using the tarballs don't need to worry about step (a) from the
> document, and if anything, we don't want them to execute autoreconf
> unless they really know they want to do so.
>
> In some projects, they keep a document for people using tarballs, and a
> separate document for people following trunk.
>
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