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Re: My experiences building GNATS 4.1.0
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Mike M. Volokhov |
Subject: |
Re: My experiences building GNATS 4.1.0 |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:36:47 +0200 |
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:59:11 -0600
Chad Walstrom <address@hidden> wrote:
> By the way, it isn't GNATS 4.10. You're about 9 releases in the future.
> ;-)
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:21:44AM +0200, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> > Another question is why build process so unclean (missing .c files,
> > missing variables, some "magic" explicit rules at the end of makefile,
> > and so on)?
>
> Historical remnants.
>
> > IMHO we should cleanup makefiles to be compliant to generic make rules
> > or use GNU atomake framework (but I'm personally are not familiar with
> > GNU build tools). Which way more preferred?
>
> I would like to see a migration to automake and a single configure.ac
Yep.
> file. However, I didn't want to hold up rolling out 4.1.0 any longer
> than necessary. Now that we've reached that milestone, we can look into
> cleaning it up a bit more.
As for me that was correctness decision. Thanks for you work, Chad!
--
Best wishes,
Mishka.