On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:21 +0200, Bernd Wurst wrote: > Gentoo aims to allow non-interactive build of > software on all platforms. That's not fully trivial and it relies on clean > build scripts. It's common that Gentoo points out errors that are rare and > weren't found before.
Bernd, am I correct in the following? 1. Gentoo _normally_ doesn't need to run autotools against a package source - simply using the usual configure/make/make install, perhaps with minimal patching to to accommodate Gentoo-specific features, is all that's required. 2. Current Courier tarballs contain configuration scripts built against outdated macros which make the above process problematic in some environments. 3. Therefore, Gentoo needs to step back one step in the build process and re-run the autotools to rebuild the configure and Makefile.in scripts. 4. If the build and configure scripts in the Courier tarball were properly updated, the Gentoo ebuild would need only to proceed as in step #1 above. This may reveal my total ignorance and misunderstanding of the GNU autotools system, but please bear with me. I'm not a professional programmer, just a lowly system admin trying to understand how best to maintain my commercial servers on which, by choice, I run Courier as my MTA and Gentoo as my distro. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
