Hi Ralph, list, Ralph Little writes:
> Hi, > Just a quick update on where I am with XSANE development. Thanks again for picking up XSANE maintenance and going beyond that helping out with sane-backends issues! :bow: > AutoTools > ============= > Currently, I am trying to fixup the autotools setup. This turned out to > be quite a bit bigger job than I anticipated. > The repo currently uses autoconf but it does not use libtool or automake > (for sources). > There are some suggestive signs that automake has been used at some > point, but there are Makefile.in files but no Makefile.am sources. > The Makefile.in files look to have been autogenerated at some point. > > It might be that Makefile.am files did exist but were missing from > checkin. It is difficult to say. > I am in the process of learning a lot about autotools and rebuilding > this infrastructure so that we can remove a lot of that boilerplate from > the repo. > One of the problems with having static Makefiles is that they are pretty > much stuck in time. Better to have these things generated and benefit > from platform and infrastructure improvements since the 10+ years ago > they were last substantially looked at. > > I know Olaf offered to give some assistance in this area, and it might > be that I have to call in that offer at some point :D You're welcome to call in (even though I'm a bit, eh, shall we say, busy/swamped). BTW, there is no hard requirment for autotools. If you're more fluent in something else, e.g. CMake, then converting to that is fine with me. Autotools can be a bit arcane at times :-/ > For the moment though, I am learning a lot and making mistakes as is > typical of this process. > > I thank you for your patience and hope that I can reward it with a more > resilient and up-to-date set of sources to move forward with. Looking forward to that, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
