Re: should we remove autotools from master?

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On 23/08/2016 15:58, Sage Weil wrote:
> Should we remove the autotools stuff from master?
> 
> Yes:
> - It won't be maintained
> - It sucks
> - It confuses people and they use it by mistake
> - We'll find any build scripts etc that haven't been converted sooner 
> rather than later
> 
> No:
> - Other architectures might rely on it
> - It's possible some build scripts haven't been convert yet
> 
> I'm thinking yes?

I vote yes. The build scripts I know about are either converted or broken because autotools no longer works :-)

Cheers

> sage
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Nathan Cutler wrote:
> 
>>> That's a different make-deb(s).sh
>>
>> Allow me to qualify that statement. This thread seems to be about
>>
>> https://github.com/ceph/ceph/blob/master/make-debs.sh
>>
>> while the "make-deb.sh" I am working on is
>>
>> https://github.com/ceph/ceph-qa-suite/blob/master/tasks/buildpackages/make-deb.sh
>>
>> which is used with the teuthology-openstack backend. However, I see the two
>> scripts are similar.
>>
>> In general, although the autotools stuff is still there in master, it is not
>> maintained and should not be expected to work (or continue to work). All build
>> infrastructure targeting master should be converted to cmake.
>>
>> Nathan
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