Hallo Ralf, On 23 Aug 2010, at 01:38, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:50:55PM CEST: >> I think Libtool should use Autobuild, <http://josefsson.org/autobuild/>, >> for testing, and developers as well as users should be encouraged to >> send results to the gathering site. It's about time I try to get my >> various build setups sorted out in some manner suitable for that. > > OK to commit? My other comments on this thread notwithstanding, please go ahead... if you have time and inclination to automate the setting of autobuild_mode per those other comments before you push, so much the better. > The AB_INIT invocation causes something like this extra info to appear > in the configure output: > > configure: autobuild project... GNU Libtool > configure: autobuild revision... 2.2.11a (1.3227 2010-08-09) is it about time we started using git-version-gen instead of our crazy CVS version number faking script? I'll do this before the pending release if you'd like. > configure: autobuild hostname... fuchs > configure: autobuild mode... default > configure: autobuild timestamp... 20100822T183040Z > > When you don't have autobuild installed, thus AB_INIT not defined, > the patch should be a no-op. autobuild will still be usable without > the above output, it's just that the developer then needs to explicitly > provide the information as command-line arguments to autobuild. > > I'd rather avoid adding libltdl/m4/autobuild.m4 to our git, that might > introduce version conflicts in the future. Agreed. > > A better long-term solution would be to start using gnulib-tool (for > argz, autobuild, maybe eventually bootstrap), Ack. > but I *really* don't want > to start experimenting with that option before the release. Strongly agreed! > configure: use Autobuild AB_INIT if available. > > * configure.ac: Call AB_INIT if it is defined, with > $autobuild_mode as argument, to be set at configure time. > Set AB_VERSION to the Libtool version string. > * HACKING: Update. > * libltdl/m4/.gitignore: Ignore autobuild.m4. Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (g...@gnu.org)
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