From: mcgrof@suse.com (Luis R. Rodriguez)
To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Subject: [Cocci] autotools: unify the way to determine version information
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 23:13:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150805211341.GH30479@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55BB7AD6.4000307@users.sourceforge.net>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 03:40:38PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Using AC_SUBST() is overkill and we don't use automake.
>
> How do you think about the consequences from a call of the macro "AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE" then?
> https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/e7dd46783d6addd7efad735144d85ed8fde841ce/configure.ac#L13
> http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Requirements.html
Can't say I care.
> > I try to avoid using autotools at all costs so if you would like that
> > instead a replacement patch by you might be more suitable.
>
> Do you fiddle also with other software build specifications occasionally?
I've only looked enough at autotools to pationately hate it.
Its year 2015 and the requirements for designing autotools
should now be superceded with simple mechanisms and modern
helpers.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-05 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-21 20:50 [Cocci] [PATCH 0/2] coccinelle: add localversion information Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-21 20:51 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 1/2] autotools: unify the way to determine version information Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-23 4:18 ` Nikolay Orlyuk
2015-07-23 7:12 ` Sébastien Hinderer
2015-07-24 18:53 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-31 13:40 ` [Cocci] " SF Markus Elfring
2015-08-05 21:13 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2015-07-24 17:12 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 1/2] " Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-26 6:55 ` Nikolay Orlyuk
2015-07-27 19:26 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2015-07-21 20:51 ` [Cocci] [PATCH 2/2] autotools: add localversion information Luis R. Rodriguez
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