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Paul Joseph Davis commented on COUCHDB-1437:
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Some WIP here:
https://github.com/davisp/couchdb/tree/wip-new-configure
Should show enough of the basic idea to communicate what I was heading for.
Should have a mostly working version tomorrow.
> Refactor configure.ac
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> Key: COUCHDB-1437
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1437
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Build System
> Affects Versions: 1.3
> Reporter: Paul Joseph Davis
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> Working on COUCHDB-1426 today has made me hate life a little bit more. Our
> build system shouldn't be this complex. Mostly this has to do with us not
> using m4 in a way that doesn't lead to horrendous spaghetti code. New plan is
> to create a number of new files like:
> * m4/couch_erlang.m4
> * m4/couch_icu_drv.m4
> * m4/couch_js.m4
> * m4/couch_snappy.m4
> * m4/couch_windows.m4 (maybe? not sure how hard this will be to extract)
> Given these files the plan will be to make configure.ac just run a top-level
> macro from each file. Hopefully we can then have much cleaner definitions
> through out the configure stuff so that when something breaks it'll be more
> obvious why and where to look for an answer.
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