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Re: [Groff] new automake system
From: |
Blake McBride |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] new automake system |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:48:34 -0500 |
Dear Bertrand,
I see. Thanks for the explanation. I hope the ./configure method
continues to work as it has.
Thanks.
Blake
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Bertrand Garrigues <
address@hidden> wrote:
> Blake,
>
> On Tue, Sep 23 2014 at 11:10:59 PM, Blake McBride <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for the response. IMO, if the new make system requires a
> > download of something that is already built and installed on my
> > machine,
>
> I understand that you find annoying to download about 60 Mo when only a
> small part will be used (we use wcwidth from gnulib and also a few
> helper scripts, they are already commited in the current build system).
>
> > then the new make system is significantly worse than using
> > the standard ./ configure.
>
> However you can't compare the bootstrap script with the configure script
> (which is also used by the new system). `boostrap' is about preparing
> everything that is needed to run `configure' (to sum up: downloading
> gnulib and calling autoreconf). On the current build system, this job is
> done mostly manually: gnulib is integrated manually and by the way
> causes a call of its own configure script, and you must be carefull when
> calling autoreconf as you can, for example, override aclocal.m4 (this
> happened recently on master). The drawback of downloading the whole
> gnulib is largely balanced, in my opinion, by some ease of use and a
> less error-prone build system.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Bertrand Garrigues
>
>
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, (continued)
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ingo Schwarze, 2014/09/22
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/22
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Bertrand Garrigues, 2014/09/22
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ingo Schwarze, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/25
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Bertrand Garrigues, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Bertrand Garrigues, 2014/09/23
- Re: [Groff] new automake system,
Blake McBride <=
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Werner LEMBERG, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Blake McBride, 2014/09/24
- Re: [Groff] new automake system, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/09/25