Hello,
With the exception of perl and CUnit, I it works fine and permits
building in a directory, different from the source directory. All
dependencies are moved to a single Makefile.am (except CUnit and Perl).
The point with CUnit is, that I did not manage to get it running on my
system, so I left it as is. The Makefile's generated from Makefile.PL
do not permit compiling perl files in a directory, different from the
source directory.
I wonder if we can change from Makefile.PL to one of the more modern
Perl build systems...
https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3678 it was suggested to
generate Makefile.PL from Makefile.PL.in at configure time and then
create Makefile from Makefile.PL at build time, without passing plenty
of variables. I uploaded now this concept.
"make dist" shall build .tar.bz2 including all files. However I have
copied the dist-target from the old Makefile.in, removed all
Makefile.dist files. The one who make tarballs/snapshots shall consider
if it is wiser to use the Automake system to make tarballs, or the
system used so far (with git). So or so, the xversion.h file needs to
be generated by git.
So long as it can be done easily, I don't much care.
Can configure.ac -> ./configure please be made in charge of xversion.h?
The best approach would be, if some hooks (post-checkout) are used at
checkout, that fill accordingly
AC_INIT([cyrus-imapd], [2.5],
[http://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org],,[http://www.cyrusimap.org])
and xversion.h on checkout.
Със здраве
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