Re: should we remove autotools from master?

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> On Aug 23, 2016, at 6:58 AM, Sage Weil <sweil@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 would be good to know how many existing architectures will be broken with dropping of automake. Nobody has screamed loud enough yet, so looks like it’s not a big issue.

Nitin

> - It's possible some build scripts haven't been convert yet
> 
> I'm thinking yes?
> 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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