From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>
Cc: "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a custom ./configure script
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 18:46:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0607050946y34bf28d5gca30264375fb7957@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060704215747.GQ29115@pasky.or.cz>
On 7/4/06, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > If you named it for example configure.sh, then autoconf generated version,
> > and your by hand created version could coexist.
>
> I'm not opposed to it per se, but I'm just not sure if it makes any
> sense to support them both in parallel, since then you have parallel
> infrastructure doing the exactly same thing, or worse yet - performing
> a subtly different set of tests. The benefit is unclear to me.
The benefit is on user side: he'll take what works for him, without waiting
for you or Jakub to fix it for him.
> Another thing is that it's named *everywhere* ./configure and if I use a
> different name now then it will be hard to rename.
but it not the same configure as "everywhere". It's your very own script.
That said, I like your script better than the autoconf thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-04 0:40 [PATCH] Add a custom ./configure script Petr Baudis
2006-07-04 13:50 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-07-04 21:57 ` Petr Baudis
2006-07-05 16:46 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
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2006-07-04 0:25 Petr Baudis
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