On Mon, Nov 04, 2024 at 10:03:17AM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: > 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. I thought I saw some distros using autoconf, so it at least isn't _completely_ broken. Let me double check... FreeBSD uses it, but other than that all the others that I've checked use the Makefile directly. Patrick
