On 11/4/24 7:17 AM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote: > The solution to that problem is autoconfiguration by detecting platform > specific bits and pieces. And we _also_ have such a build system in the > form of autoconf, but now we're entering territory that is awfully hard > to maintain. Most people don't use it at all, the only user seems to > really be distros. And they tend to hit many issues with autoconf > because we devs don't use that infra in the first place, creating a bit > of an awkward situation. Unifying this infrastructure such that devs and > packagers use the same build infra is thus another goal of my series. As a distro packager (not of git specifically), my understanding was that *no* distros use the autoconf, and that at least some distros say the reason for this is that the autoconf is so unused that it doesn't actually work. We tried to use the autoconf but failed. -- Eli Schwartz
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