From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 3] Copy description of build configuration variables to configure.ac Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:47:43 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <200607030156.50455.jnareb@gmail.com> <1152392835436-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com> <11523928361444-git-send-email-jnareb@gmail.com> <7virm7nq7h.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 09 18:47:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FzcRZ-0002GT-CH for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:47:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751331AbWGIQri (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 12:47:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751332AbWGIQri (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 12:47:38 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37803 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331AbWGIQrh (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 12:47:37 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FzcRJ-0002F9-7I for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:47:26 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-31-220.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.31.220]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:47:25 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-31-220.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:47:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-31-220.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jakub Narebski writes: > >> Copy description of build configuration variables from the commentary >> in the top Makefile (from 'next' branch) to configure.ac, splitting >> them into "autoconf" sections. > > I do not see much point in this -- they will become out of sync. > [...] I think you are better off making a list of > supported and yet to be supported ones in the comment in > configure.ac, and when you want to see if the list got stale > over time, grep for '^# Define' from the Makefile and match them > up. This is kind of such a list. Also let me point out that this was in _first_ patch of the series, as a kind of TODO list. Perhaps those which are done, and those which are not implemented should be marked differently... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git