Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 June 2011 07:55, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: All of these alternative build systems are a PITA on one system or another. If it requires jam, cmake or anything that requires installing prerequisites 9 times out of 10 I won't even try that software unless there is a binary

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Twylite
On 09:59 PM, Matt Welland wrote: For fossil you could keep the files generated by autoconf (not the ./configure step but the initialization step) checked in. Then it is just ./configure make install on most systems. For anything weird (e.g. windows) provide a Makefile.win32 or similar.

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 June 2011 09:47, Twylite twyl...@crypt.co.za wrote: On 09:59 PM, Matt Welland wrote: For fossil you could keep the files generated by autoconf (not the ./configure step but the initialization step) checked in. Then it is just ./configure make install on most systems. For anything weird

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 June 2011 08:37, Alexander Vladimirov id...@idkfa.org.ru wrote: how abouth this: http://buildconf.brlcad.org A script like that is standard part of many autotoolized projects. In fact, most people can't build an autotoolized project (other than release tarballs with pre-generated configure

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello Graeme, On 2011-06-15 11:04, Graeme Gill wrote: Michal Suchanek wrote: Autotools can be installed and operated on Windows like most other build configuration systems. I'm not sure that's possible without installing a UNIX like shell and set of tools. This is rather foreign for a

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:03:03AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: So, I'm asking for volunteers for people with better autoconf-foo than me, to put together an autoconf/automake setup for Fossil. If you are good with autoconf/automake, please consider contributing your expertise to the project.

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Eric Junkermann
On 15 Jun 2011, at 16:28, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: i (now) prefer autotools because i spent some time getting comfortable with m4 Yes, I think failure to understand m4, or failure to realise that it needs to be understood, is one reason why people end up disliking

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:55:18 -0700 Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that from an end user perspective all that is needed with autoconf is sh. Not quite true. The problem is that, while every system has a /bin/sh, different systems use different shells for that: most (but not

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Martin Gagnon
Le 2011-06-15 à 19:07, Mike Meyer m...@mired.org a écrit : On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:55:18 -0700 Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that from an end user perspective all that is needed with autoconf is sh. Not quite true. The problem is that, while every system has a /bin/sh,