On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:36:58PM -0500, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> Hi again all,
>
> I have been exploring how to use automake/autoconf stuff today, and I
> noticed a problem with the subversion Makefile.am's. If one was to run
> 'make dist' first of all it would not work because of the apr stuff.
Yup. We haven't worked on the install/distro stuff since we don't have a
product yet :-)
> However, even if the apr stuff complied with automake, running make
> 'distcheck' would still fail because dist check uses a VPATH build, and
> subversion's INCLUDE macros reference directories relatively. Since
Good point. Mo DeJong was doing some work to fix up the VPATH builds.
Unfortunately, I keep missing my Round Tuit and getting the needed tweaks
checked in. Sascha did some APR work a few weeks ago, so I think we're only
missing a MKDIR= in configure.in. Once you can at least configure, then the
"make" and "make distcheck" will start to be important.
> some users do indeed use VPATH builds we should probably fix these
> INCLUDE macros at some point before subversion makes it to 1.0. All
> that is required is to replace '-I../include' with
> '-I@srcdir@/../include' so it isn't really all that much work, just
> something that needs to be kept in mind. I'll start doing it if anyone
> is interested in having it done now.
Hmm. There is probably a top_srcdir or something similar. I'd rather see the
include directories come from that angle, rather than the relative paths. It
would also be reasonable to create APR_INCLUDES, NEON_INCLUDES, etc, have
configure set those up, and then have the makefiles just refer to those
(rather than *any* path info).
> P.S. Let me know if I am bothering anyone by posting so many little
> things to the list, I can keep my mouth shut (fingers still), but I
> usually need someone to tell me to first :)
Not at all. The only problem will be that we skip a patch. If you don't see
action on a particular patch, then just repost the patch with a reminder.
Speaking for myself, I get too much mail for too many projects. Stuff ends
up dropping on the floor.
Cheers,
-g
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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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