For removing autotools support, I think that we should first announce that autotools will not be supported starting <some-future-day> and till then support both of them in parallel and response to questions about it. Also, we first need to make sure that we have comprehensive instructions for using cmake. Notice, that many developers are not familiar with cmake; hence, there might be need for extra explanations. For example, I tried now the instructions in https://github.com/ceph/ceph/blob/master/README.md ./do_cmake.sh cd build make and I got the error: make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. Probably, because of the explanation "This assumes you make your build dir a subdirectory of the ceph.git checkout. If you put it elsewhere, just replace .. above with a correct path to the checkout." However, if you are not familiar with cmake, then this explanation does not tell you how to recover from the error. Also, I am not sure it is clear to all developers how to combine above instructions with options that you could provide to ./configure script. Hence, I think removing autotools support should not be immediate Avner > -----Original Message----- > From: Loic Dachary > > > 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 > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" > >> in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo > >> info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >> > >> > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo > > info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > -- > Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
