Re: Minor patch for Makefile.in

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:08:55PM -0700, Mo DeJong wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Here is a small little patch to get the toplevel Makefile
> going when buildir != srcdir (this does not fix things,
> it just gets the process started).

It should be possible to use top_srcdir for this, rather than defining a new
srcdir symbol. I agree with your change... checking in now (with some other
stuff I'm checking in).

> I noticed that the
> toplevel configure.in now emits only a single makefile.
>
> AC_OUTPUT([Makefile])

Yup, just one.

> If all the existing Makefile.am and Makefile.in files
> are going to be removed to make way for this custom
> build process,

They're history in a just a few moments :-)

> how should we expect the system to
> know what subdirectories it should create in the
> build directory? It seems like it would be a good
> idea to have this build.conf thing deal with that.

Exactly. We've got all the info in build.conf.

>...
> Anyone know how that could be changed to emit
> some kind of init statement like:
>
> all: mkdir_init ...
>
> mkdir_init:
> mkdir subversion
> mkdir subversion/libsvn_delta
> ....

Just some tweaks to gen-make.py. I can do that in a moment.

> P.S.
>
> Is it really such a good idea to try to invent a new
> build system so close to the time you want to release
> something? I know the old system was not perfect,
> but at least it already worked.

A good chunk of us agreed that we wanted to see a new system like this. Once
you have agreement on the end goal, then it is a matter of what an
*individual* chooses to do. This is, after all, a volunteer effort :-)

Yes, I'm sure that Karl would prefer that I worked on something else, but
this has been a good breather for me right now.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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