On 2 May 2001, at 15:18, Ewald Wasscher wrote:
> I have to agree with that to a great extent. But many programs use a
> "configure" script to configure the source tree to be built with certain
> options. I really prefer to have a script in the diff that calls this
> configure script to doing the configuration by hand and then producing a
> diff that is used to do that when rebuilding a package..
I hadn't thought this far forward; to date everything I've worked
with (tftp, lilo, syslinux...) all use GNU make, but don't use GNU
configure.
I briefly thought about it, but had lots of other things going on.
With a makefile and a diff, I just added a new makefile in lrp/* to
be run. With configure, things would be different....
> If I understand you correctly you put quite a bit of this trickery
> in the Makefiles etc. of the program itself instead of in a script
> in this subdir. I may be nitpicking but I find the latter approach
> "cleaner".
It's not nitpicking exactly; it is basic to how things are done.
Shifting to your model would be simple; the only bit I put into the
make file of the program itself is the call to make using
lrp/Makefile. In fact, if you do this:
cd some-source-tree-3.0
cd lrp
make
...you should get a package if the binaries are already compiled.
> OK, I'll take your word that ash is a bad example. It's nice that
> Erik's patches convert the makefiles to gnu make, but I doubt that
> history support is his work as history is already in the debian
> version of ash; and afaik debian ash is THE port of ash to linux.
You may be right about history; however, Debian ash is not the only
port of ash to Linux. Red Hat ported it as well, and have numbered
it at 0.2 for whatever reason. I downloaded the RPM to attempt to
compile it, but never got anywhere with it.
I wound up using whatever diffs Erik had.
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David Douthitt
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