Hm. Not directly on point but related - should we move off auto* tools at some point and just use cmake? (which is already in the codebase) Or some other option?
Patrick On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:05 AM Andor Molnar <an...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > "When is pkg-config needed?" > > Both. You need the macro to generate ./configure and you need pkg-config > and cppunit.pc (part of cppunit package) to compile the tests. > > "Do we already do something special like generate the configure script and > ship that as part of the release?" > > That's correct. We ship the generated ./configure script and Makefile.in in > the release artifact. > > Andor > > > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > > > When is pkg-config needed? If you want to compile from source or if you > > want to compile from the release artifact? Do we already do something > > special like generate the configure script and ship that as part of the > > release? > > > > Patrick > > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 6:44 AM Andor Molnar <an...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > > This PR is also related: > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/362 > > > > > > Andor > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Andor Molnar <an...@cloudera.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi devs, > > > > > > > > I'm having problems resolving the issue mentioned in this Jira and > need > > > > some feedback from you: > > > > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-3034 > > > > > > > > In a nutshell the situation with *cppunit* is as follows: > > > > LibreOffice team confirmed that from version *1.14.0* they will no > > longer > > > > ship m4 macro definitions in cppunit releases. They encourage > everybody > > > to > > > > use *pkg-config* instead in order to generate configure script and > > > > Makefile. By the way, this is not a new thing, it was supported even > > > before > > > > 1.14.0. So basically, they no longer support both tools, only > > > pkg-config. > > > > > > > > So, in order to support building and running C++ tests on recent > > > > distributions with cppunit-1.14.0 like Ubuntu 18.04, Fedora, etc., we > > > have > > > > to switch to *pkg-config*. > > > > > > > > *Backward compatibility* > > > > pkg-config is going to be a new dependency of the C client which we > > need > > > > to add to the documentation near to autoconf 2.59 requirement. On the > > > > flipside we can remove the requirement of cppunit.m4. > > > > > > > > Another thing we can do is to maintain two different configure.ac > > > scripts > > > > from now on: one for cppunit.m4 and another one for pkg-config which > is > > > > going to be the default. We also have to describe in the > documentation > > > why > > > > we made that change and how to revert to the m4 version if needed. > > > > > > > > The way it's currently implemented in the following pull request has > > been > > > > tested and works on Ubuntu 14.04, 18.04 and CentOS 7 as long as > > > pkg-config > > > > is installed. > > > > > > > > https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/528 > > > > > > > > Please share your thoughts and review the changes. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
