From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NHo2Y-0007PR-El for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:34:54 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHo2X-0007OD-60 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:34:53 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NHo2R-0007KT-3H for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:34:52 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34198 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NHo2Q-0007KN-Tg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:34:46 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f215.google.com ([209.85.219.215]:52578) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NHo2Q-0001ht-Od for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:34:47 -0500 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so6528623ewy.32 for ; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:34:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=vRwyQoGXm8OReHWrOziakDVEGJN5rXvI2qBSZCgenRs=; b=R9G/F/C/dj9UgeCOYpX5PvhbES7wIxP6+d9M1oScHk/fAtaIZCv3DSBZTfeGF4EPuB OBLlLEpT8dGwhZwwHK9wZAF3OoHW14sjfYwqLxVVhKw/bY/Ql8D3d5Eo5ttWDbg6dBeT OCtNyl5jisgrnOvnrUkH19+3gr2b9pfoAUG0g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; b=DfvZ63zVb7Jf91y5P6M8FJiXan5G1PYmfHUkGMAYzC8GKQuv69dhReQfDD8sSBM17Z jM4bd9FzlfKnMu+VH8sIZ5ofKhU/PkJUTsJnC1f4V/o+0h/XRqxth4PAD5CHdS6QXma6 qivYpEwJ9Ts+0BHjElvpmO/HuQmXh4etYFPqw= Received: by 10.213.15.17 with SMTP id i17mr260683eba.32.1260232483987; Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:34:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from debian.bg45.phnet (gprs01.swisscom-mobile.ch [193.247.250.1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm3698446ewy.10.2009.12.07.16.34.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:34:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B1D9F1B.5070904@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:34:35 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <4B1D3D7E.5000909@gmail.com> <4B1D5C89.8080104@gmail.com> <4B1D6AB9.8070105@gmail.com> <4B1D8664.4070403@gmail.com> <20091207235455.GL6439@riva.ucam.org> <4B1D9758.1020303@gmail.com> <20091208001609.GR6439@riva.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20091208001609.GR6439@riva.ucam.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1C63A23811726B961C65E481" X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Building system (Re: autogen.sh warnings) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:34:53 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1C63A23811726B961C65E481 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colin Watson wrote: > I wouldn't recommend it. The syntax looks similar, but there are some > slight differences, and Automake has its own ideas of what rules and > variables you are and aren't allowed to override. Besides, there's quit= e > a lot of stuff that Automake will output even with an entirely blank > Makefile.am; I doubt it would be very much fun to try to merge that int= o > the current Makefile.in without essentially doing a full port to > Automake. > > (Now if only I had time to actually do such a port ...) > > =20 You may consider this mail: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-08/msg00017.html I see following variants for future developpement: - Keep ruby and improve it to address some of its deficiencies - Rewrite system in python. This way merging ruby and python dependencies= =2E - Using automake if it's deficiencies are addressable - Using just GNU make as I proposed and implemented once. --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig1C63A23811726B961C65E481 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iF4EAREKAAYFAksdnyEACgkQNak7dOguQgle6AD/ZuYcV+i44VgInqj/O2zCM8vv aZMaR6l2b2rtUfO6kWQA/1+OJ5sM/GueqHCyrefoFIoBYGxPLqMUfT1l6aSMc2VI =AtOV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1C63A23811726B961C65E481--