On 06/09/2009 02:07 PM, Chris Lumens wrote:
>> This was a backburner project I had for a while, but I've updated it to
>> work with the latest source tree and feel now (early in F-12), it's a
>> good time to look at something like this.
>
> I'm okay with this, if for no other reason than:
>
> (1) It forces some sort of build system organization on us, which we had
> kind of been making up as we went along.
To me, this seems like a step backward, not forward.
> (2) It makes us look more like all the other projects in Fedora, which
> is at the least good PR for us.
True, but not very compelling.
> (3) It forces us to look at our source tree and move things around that
> no longer make sense.
Eh, maybe a little true, but not something we couldn't do without such an
invasive change for so little /tangible/ benefit.
>> 4) Speaking of ./configure, I added options for SELinux and other things
>> that we had as conditionals in Makefiles (however, they may no longer
>> be completely conditional in the code). The default settings are
>> what we had as defaults before.
>
> At some point, we should go through and decide whether these things
> really do need to be options anymore.
Yeah, that'd be a whole lot better to do. In the case of SELinux, we've kept
it optional at the request of other distros that use Anaconda and don't ship
SELinux.
I think switching to autotools is a major mistake.
--
Peter
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