On 20/07/2011, at 7:16 PM, Ben Summers wrote: > > I'm concerned that typing 'make' on obscure platforms builds subtly broken > binaries. For example, on Solaris, it'll build one which truncates your > passwords to 8 characters. > > I propose that we whitelist platforms where the default Makefile is known to > work, and force the use of ./configure for all other platforms. > > Here's an example change to the build system which only allows Linux and Mac > OS X to use the default Makefile: > > http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/14d1e44957 > > I have also corrected the documentation. Suggesting people type "./configure; > make" will just use the default Makefile on the platforms where it really > matters! You need to use the explicit "./configure; make -f GNUmakefile" to > pick up the autosetup generated Makefile. > > Ben
The autosetup/configure stuff is quite new. Aren't we just waiting until it has had some more testing until switching over to it for all (non-windows) platforms? Probably makes sense to rename Makefile to Makefile.classic and have configure create Makefile from Makefile.in though. Cheers, Steve -- µWeb: Embedded Web Framework - http://uweb.workware.net.au/ WorkWare Systems Pty Ltd W: www.workware.net.au P: +61 434 921 300 E: [email protected] F: +61 7 3391 6002 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
