From: "Miguel Sousa Filipe" <miguel.filipe@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff Mahoney" <jeffm@jeffreymahoney.com>
Cc: "Chris Mason" <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
"Btrfs Development List" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] btrfs-progs: convert to autotools
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:09:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f058a9c30806131909m177bf1d4id296afd7340af363@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080613201007.641785953@suse.com>
Hi all!
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@jeffreymahoney.com> wrote:
> This patch converts the btrfs-progs build system from a single Makefile
> to the autotools suite.
>
> The advantages are:
> Easier construction of Makefiles
> Easier to breakout the source into separate directories for easier management
> Easier to build shared libraries automatically
> Automatic checking for optional libraries, like libext2fs for btrfs-convert
> Automatic infrastructure for installing and testing
>
> The caveats are:
> Opinions on autotools are... mixed.
> make C=1 no longer works, but is replaced by make check.
Please make this optional..
I would really prefer the simple makefile that it has now..
If the proposed advantages are a wanted feature, I would gladly try to
supply patches for the makefile to support them..
Just to keep it away from autotool hell.
Kind regards
--
Miguel Sousa Filipe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-14 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-13 20:09 [patch 0/5] btrfs-progs: Create libbtrfs and package it up Jeff Mahoney
2008-06-13 20:09 ` [patch 1/5] btrfs-progs: convert to autotools Jeff Mahoney
2008-06-14 2:09 ` Miguel Sousa Filipe [this message]
2008-06-14 5:22 ` Jeff Mahoney
2008-06-14 6:10 ` Dongjun Shin
2008-06-14 6:38 ` Joe Peterson
2008-06-13 20:09 ` [patch 2/5] btrfs-progs: Test for sparse support in configure Jeff Mahoney
2008-06-13 20:09 ` [patch 3/5] btrfs-progs: Restructure code layout, create libbtrfs Jeff Mahoney
2008-06-13 20:09 ` [patch 4/5] btrfs-progs: Add RPM spec file support Jeff Mahoney
2008-06-13 20:09 ` [patch 5/5] btrfs-progs: Script to restructure the source as needed by patch 3 Jeff Mahoney
2008-06-13 20:29 ` [patch 0/5] btrfs-progs: Create libbtrfs and package it up Christoph Hellwig
2008-06-13 17:17 ` Jeff Mahoney
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2008-07-16 12:00 [patch 1/5] btrfs-progs: convert to autotools Kai Moonbourn
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