As you wish.
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:37 PM, David Sommerseth
<openvpn.l...@topphemmelig.net> wrote:
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> On 13/04/10 15:59, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>>> Alon, with all respect, it is great getting feedbacks to submitted
>>> > patches, even REVERT suggestions. Could you perhaps share some thoughts
>>> > about how to solve it, instead of just rejecting it?
>> I did.
>> I sent you an example of how we solve it in OpenSC and Suspend.
>>
>> http://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/browser/trunk/configure.ac#L613
>>
>> autoconf log was NEVER intended to be used as programming interface,
>> and is far than being stable.
>
> I feel you oversee something. The configure_h.awk script uses config.h,
> which is included in most of the C files already.
>
> The config.log is *only* used for getting the command line of how
> ./configure was called, via configure_log.awk. To my knowledge, this
> information is not available anywhere else. If I have overseen this
> somewhere, then please enlighten me.
>
> The config.log is also not used as a programming interface. One static,
> configure time related line is *extracted* and compiled into the binary.
> This is extraction of useful debug information for situation where the
> openvpn-testing code is distributed in binary.
>
> If this configure line is not found, an empty string will be the result,
> so no openvpn features are harmed. With the clean-up patches, it will
> now also compile without any issues. And to my knowledge config.log
> does not change after Make begins to compile the source code.
>
>
> kind regards,
>
> David Sommerseth
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