From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5•se>
To: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:18:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44A51693.5020501@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e80lnq$9mi$1@sea.gmane.org>
Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
>
>
>>>This is beginning of patch series introducing installation configuration
>>>using autoconf (and no other autotools) to git. The idea is to generate
>>>config.mak using ./configure (generated from configure.ac) from
>>>config.mak.in, so one can use autoconf as an _alternative_ to ordinary
>>>Makefile, and creating one's own config.mak.
>>
>>Are you sure this should be named config.mak? From INSTALL:
>>
>>>You can place local settings in config.mak and the Makefile
>>>will include them. Note that config.mak is not distributed;
>>>the name is reserved for local settings.
>>
>>So with another filename either include it
>>- before config.mak: the user may override ./configure options with
>> config.mak
>>- after config.mak: ./configure overrides config.mak
>
>
> The idea was to use ./configure to _generate_ config.mak, which the user can
> then edit.
>
This is bad, since it forces users to do one thing first and then do
what they're used to. Better to have the script add
-include config.mak.autogen
LAST in config.mak, unless it's already in the file and generate
config.mak.autogen with configure.
Since Make does things bottoms-up (much like swedish students and
midsummer celebrators), the previous hand-edited defaults in config.mak
will beat the ones in config.mak.autogen (a good thing).
> But perhaps using another filename for results of ./configure script
> (and including it in main Makefile) would be better idea.
>
>
>>At least do not overwrite config.mak if it exists.
>
>
> But one might want to run ./configure with different options, to finally
> arrive at the set which is satisfactionary. So unless some magic to detect
> if config.mak was generated from ./configure script, or generated by user
> is used...
>
grep -q autogen config.mak || \
echo "-include config.mak.autogen" >> config.mak
I wouldn't want my long-standing, functioning config.mak overwritten,
but I *might* be interested in trying some of the options provided by
./configure.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5•se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-30 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-29 1:01 [PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 7:18 ` Uwe Zeisberger
2006-06-29 11:59 ` [PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to check for libraries: openssl/crypto, curl, expat Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 13:36 ` [RFC/PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to check for some types and library functions Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 15:04 ` [PATCH] autoconf: Cleanup generation of config.mak.append by ./configure Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 16:35 ` [PATCH] Allow INSTALL, bindir, mandir to be set in main Makefile Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 17:47 ` [PATCH] autoconf: Set mandir in config.mak.in and export variables not in Makefile Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 0:11 ` [PATCH 7] autoconf: configure.ac uses variables to set in, out and temp files Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 0:32 ` [PATCH 8] autoconf: ./configure script outputs to config.mac.auto Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 12:37 ` [PATCH 9] autoconf: Cleanup generation of temporary "append" file Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 12:39 ` [PATCH 10] autoconf: Write how to use ./configure generated file in git build process Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 12:41 ` [PATCH 11] autoconf: Rename ./configure output file to config.mak.autogen Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 15:08 ` [PATCH 12] Revert "autoconf: Write how to use ./configure generated file in git build process" Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 15:11 ` [PATCH 13] autoconf: Append '-include config.mak.autogen' to config.mak if it is not present Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 20:29 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 21:45 ` [RFC/PATCH 14] autoconf: Added --with/--without for openssl, curl, expat to ./configure Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 21:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-06-30 22:32 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <20060630233004.7xckw444g4g0gcs8@webmail.spamcop.net>
2006-07-01 17:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-07-08 7:33 ` Pavel Roskin
2006-06-30 22:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 18:23 ` [PATCH] Allow INSTALL, bindir, mandir to be set in main Makefile Junio C Hamano
2006-06-29 20:16 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 12:46 ` [PATCH] autoconf: Use autoconf to write installation directories to config.mak Matthias Lederhofer
2006-06-29 13:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-30 12:18 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2006-06-30 15:15 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-07-01 13:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-29 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <20060701213305.GA29115@pasky.or.cz>
2006-07-01 22:04 ` Jakub Narebski
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