I agree unfortunately.
On Sep 6, 2011 6:29 PM, "Jordan Wilberding" <[email protected]> wrote:
> After playing around a bit with getting it to build on my system, I think
we
> are just going to have to go with autotools. It is no fun, I know, but I
> don't see the current way being very reliable.
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Eric Merritt <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>> The caveats are that we arent using the libarchive build system at all
>> we are using our own. So I have no idea if we are defining everything
>> we should or shouldn't and it would be rough to know what should be
>> there until it breaks. That and the bad smell of duplicating another
>> repo in our own.
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jordan Wilberding
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > What are the caveats?
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Eric Merritt <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am playing with removing the deps directory, well at least
>> >> libarchive. The problem I am running into is that libarchive uses
>> >> libtool to make its libraries which is not compatible with the normal
>> >> non-libtool crap and waf does not support libtool well at all.
>> >>
>> >> I am pretty sure removing libarchive from being included in the app
>> >> (and libz which would be required as well) is a good thing. A very
>> >> good thing. However, I dont think it can easily be done with waf. That
>> >> means converting to something else. Probably autotools hate, hate,
>> >> hate them though I do.
>> >>
>> >> The other option is to leave libarchive in the dependencies, add libz
>> >> and continue on. The upside there is it already works though with a
>> >> bunch of caveats. I am a bit stuck as to the best way to go so I
>> >> thought I would solicit opinions.
>> >>
>> >> Eric
>> >>
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