Re: [Fedora-directory-devel] Please review: [Bug 212098] Use autoconf to generate task perl script templates

[Nathan Kinder <nkinder@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Megginson wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:14 -0700, Pete Rowley wrote:
> >  
> > > Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > >    
> > > > Our current policy is to generate these files for release tarballs, 
> > > > and
> > > > for our 'unpacked' tree on samba.org (current SVN checked out).
> > > >         
> > > OTOH they are required in order to do:
> > >
> > > cvs co
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > >     
> >
> > Yeah, projects typically end up with an ./autogen.sh to make the right
> > innovation of the configure generation tool.
> >   
> I've found that using autoreconf usually does the right thing.  When I 
> change configure.ac/in or Makefile.am or an .m4 file, I always run
> autoreconf -vfi
>  -v, --verbose            verbosely report processing
>  -f, --force              consider all files obsolete
>  -i, --install            copy missing auxiliary files
> It takes a little longer, but I almost never have conflict or 
> timestamp problems.  Plus, it's part of the standard autotools 
> package, and it is the way the autoconf/automake manuals recommend 
> rebuilding the autotool files.
> For some projects, this won't work (e.g. for mozldap, you have to just 
> use autoconf-2.13, not autoreconf or autoreconf-2.13).
As I just very recently found out, we also need a very specific version 
of libtool (1.5.22) to generate ltmain.sh if we want to be able to build 
a 64-bit Directory Server on Solaris.  Running "autoreconf -fvi" will 
generate a new ltmain.sh that may be a version that we don't want to 
check in if we expect to be able to immediately run "configure; make 
install" after checking out the code.

-NGK
> > Andrew Bartlett
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