On 02/17/2010 04:18 AM, Javier Jardón wrote:
Hello,
I've created this page: [1]
with some tips to modernize the autotools configuration of GNOME (or
others) projects.
As I'm not an autotools expert, It would be great if someone of you
take a look to the page to correct the possible mistakes.
(Feel free to edit the page directly or comment here the issues)
Best regards,
[1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/ModernAutotools
My personal remarks on your document:
- Don't use ACLOCAL_FLAGS
Modern configuration setups don't need it.
- AM_MAINTAINER_MODE has valid use cases. Though I agree with your
intention to discourage users from using it, your formulation is way too
strict, IMO.
- Recommend automake >= 1.11.1.
automake 1.10 is known to be suffering from critical security issues.
- Recommend using vanilla FSF autotools- -not the versions vendors ship,
because they typically have patches which can render modifying/patching
auto*tool files difficult.
What I am missing:
- Ship tarballs with all sources and generated files included.
- Don't run autoreconf/autogen.sh during builds.
- Don't exploit autotools's internals.
Ralf
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