From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n1R7NnVu032438 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:23:49 -0600 Message-ID: <49A794D3.2000904@sgi.com> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:22:59 +1100 From: Greg Banks MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [patch] fix parallel build failures in xfsprogs-3.0.0 References: <200902240010.25434.vapier@gentoo.org> <200902261323.09312.agruen@suse.de> <200902261017.30017.vapier@gentoo.org> <200902261817.02604.agruen@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200902261817.02604.agruen@suse.de> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Andreas Gruenbacher Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Eric Sandeen , Mike Frysinger , xfs-oss Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > On Thursday, 26 February 2009 16:17:28 Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> yes. i dont know why the xfs progs have been packaging these autogenerated >> files by themselves. >> >> - remove aclocal.m4 from git >> - run `aclocal -I m4` >> - run `libtoolize -c -f` >> - run `autoconf` >> > > Some packages provide a shell script called autogen.sh which automates all those tedious autotools steps. The Gnome autogen.sh is fairly general and does things like check for autotools versions and work out dynamically which tools to run. http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-common/trunk/autogen.sh?revision=3902&view=markup http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-common/trunk/macros2/gnome-autogen.sh?revision=3913&view=markup You don't need all that of course, you could get away with a 5-line shell script. As long as you call it "autogen.sh" people should know what to do. > You mean this should become the normal build process? > > I was actually more thinking along the lines of reducing build dependencies by > adding a few more generated files like ./configure ... > > Not in a version control system. Otherwise developers who do run autoconf, using a different version of autoconf from you, will get an enormous spurious diff in the configure script which they have to decide whether to ignore or not. -- Greg Banks, P.Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. the brightly coloured sporks of revolution. I don't speak for SGI. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs