---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robert Ancell <[email protected]> Date: 2010/1/28 Subject: Re: Autotools modernization in GNOME To: "Thomas H.P. Andersen" <[email protected]>
Hi Thomas, Thanks for that. It may be worth looking at pandora-build: https://edge.launchpad.net/pandora-build There was a talk at linux.conf.au 2010 from the author - it is a set of macros and conventions to make autotools as simple as possible to use. The difficulties I find with packaging: - Making it clear on build dependencies, i.e. it should be easy to read out the dependencies in configure.ac and update the package with these (this is generally easy but it is a good goal to state in an autotools policy) - Patches that modify configure.ac or Makefile.am(s) - we then need a second patch to update configure and Makefile(s). Ideally we'd like to regenerate these before each package build but autotools version mismatches tend to stop this from working reliably. I don't know if there is a good solution for autotools though. --Robert 2010/1/28 Thomas H.P. Andersen <[email protected]>: > Hi Robert, > > Javier just started a new gnome goal proposal the other day to > modernize the autotools usage in gnome. You can see the proposal here: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools > > You guys are doing a lot of packaging so maybe you have some tips, or > requests for this goal? > > - Thomas > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
