Re: PMCs: any Hackathon requests? (deadline 11 October)

Nathan Hartman wrote on Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 16:12:01 -0400:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:48 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> > > Should these be re-merged into one item, as you had it before?
> >
> > That depends. _Do_ the Windows build scripts support libmagic?
>
> I think they don't. Unless I missed something.
>
> It looks as though the Windows build uses the makefile at
> tools/dev/windows-build/Makefile. I am guessing that packagers for the
> Windows platform are using this as their starting point? Anyway, this
> makefile makes absolutely no mention of libmagic.

That makefile is not the primary way to build on windows. The primary way is
what INSTALL documents, i.e., gen-make.py and build/**/*.py.

Given that the makefile specifies serf 1.1.0 and configure.ac enforces ≥1.3.4,
I dare say that no one uses that makefile any more.

Cheers,

Daniel

> I'll merge the two items into one:
>
> * Python programming:
>
> - SVN-3914 - Implement building with libmagic on Windows in the build
> scripts and document it in INSTALL.
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-3914?issueNumber=3914
Received on 2019-10-10 22:47:15 CEST