Ales Hvezda wrote:
Hi Dan,
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I wonder if its time to make use of AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() and stick a very
brief configure.ac at the top level. I've not done this before, but I
wonder if it would let you turn gaf from several tarballs and
./configure && make && make install invocations into 1 tarball and 1
config/install. I think that would go a long way to making it easier
for most users.
In theory, the toplevel makefile should take care of everything:
make
set the environment vars
make install
and it's far simpler than a configure script. gEDA/gaf is split
up the way it is to make the package maintainers happy. However, I will
consider other alternatives like creating a super tarball or such. Or maybe
just hope that Stuart's CDROM takes care of all such issues. :)
this is assuming everything in the top level makefile is essentially
correct for your system. Actually, what would make things easier for
the NetBSD package maintainer (me) is a single package instead of 9.
The trick is gschem, for example, would need to be taught to build
against the not-yet-installed libgeda.
But then again, I don't have to update the NetBSD packages that often so
its not a huge issue.
-Dan
