Re: [Gnu-arch-users] migrating projects

[Dustin Sallings]

On Monday, Sep 15, 2003, at 01:00 US/Pacific, Magnus Therning wrote:

> If the project uses not only autoconf but also automake then it is good
> form to make sure it can build in a separate directory since the target
> 'distcheck' will fail otherwise.

	This is something I should consider for my own projects, but some of 
the projects I've got are imports from other projects.  For example, 
I've imported both the original ssh and openssh source trees in order 
to make LDAP an option for locating RSA keys.  In cases like that, I'm 
just trying to make a small change to an isolated part of the system.  
Dramatically changing their build system for them would be greatly 
beyond the scope of the change I was trying to make and would pretty 
much guarantee my patch would be refused.  :)

	Personally, I've never used automake.  It makes me think of imake, 
which scares me.  :)

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