Hi Marc, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: > Hello, > > the current build system used in the can-utils has IMHO some drawbacks, > packaging isn't supportedand and external set CFLAGS are not obayed. > > Speaking from a distribution maintainer point of view (propper) > autotoolized packages are far more easy to handle than hand crafted > makefiles.
We definitely need that. > While hacking on it I noticed an obsolete bzero in cangw, which is > replaced my memset in the first patch. I imported the svn to a > git repo[1], the second patch adds a .gitignore. > > The third patch provides a autoconf/automake/libtool infrastructure. > It uses GNUmakefile instead of Makefile, so that it doesn't interfere > the existing Makefile. > > Please review, test, comment and consider to apply. I cross-compiled for PowerPC 6xx. "autogen" reported some "warnings", but that's probably normal. "configure", "make" and "make install" worked fine (also with DESTDIR). From my point of view these patches are OK and can/should go in. > cheers, Marc > > P.S.: I'm willing to learn cmake if someone preferes it over autotools. I used cmake for some software packages recently and it doesn't look more transparent to me than autotools, at a first glace. Wolfgang. _______________________________________________ Socketcan-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core
