On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:50:04 +1000 Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> said: > >> On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:30:24AM +0200, Albin Tonnerre wrote: >>> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:24 +1000, Simon Horman wrote : >>>> Is the following appropriate? >>>> >>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> Subject: Add autogen.sh to dist tarball >>>> >>>> autogen.sh is used by the debian packaging so it seems >>>> appropriate to include it in the dist tarball >>> >>> Either you're packaging from SVN and therefore don't need it to be part of >>> the dist tarball, or you're packaging from the snapshots at >>> download.enlightenment.org (or snapshots you generated) and then your >>> packaging should be fixed to use directly ./configure instead of >>> configure.sh. Is there an actual use case I'm missing, for which this >>> change would be required? >> >> Thanks for filling me in on the expected usage. > > actually. alibin is wrong (sorry!) autogen's do get packaged. look at existing > efl. we put it in so if u get a tarball u CAN easily modify the configure.ac, > Makefile.am's etc. and re-generate the autofoo. the script will be there with > all the magic. not everyone will want or need to do this from a tarball dist - > but it dos happen. people patching packages are often the ones using it. so > it's not valid. it's an omission in the esmart build foo. :) (even if albin > was > right - eet, evas, elementary, edje, ... etc. all include autogen.sh in their > EXTRA_DIST, so it'd go in for consistency sake. it's goo to have everything in > svn have consistent autofoo files and work the same way. it makes everything > hav the same bug o everything is right. not some things buggy, some not, in > terms of autofoo usage/structure, so if u do find a bug/issue - u can know > that > fixing it everywhere else is trivial) get a source, modify configure.ac, run make. The autotools commands will be re-launched. Sometimes, when the modifications are too big, you need autogen.sh (i had that problem), or use autoreconf. Vincent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
