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Re: Handling of sub-packages by autoconf interfaces
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SF Markus Elfring |
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Re: Handling of sub-packages by autoconf interfaces |
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Sat, 5 Sep 2015 12:58:42 +0200 |
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> A better reason is simply to save people time chasing dependencies.
I like this purpose for software bundling usually.
> I’m referring to the fact that with embedded tarballs,
> you can’t call AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() to make the top-level configure script
> call the subpackage configure scripts.
Do you need to pass any special configuration parameters there occasionally?
> Because unpacking the tarballs is conditional,
It can happen that I need and really want to reuse an older package
so that the corresponding software version will work for a while.
> your main software package must be reinventing this wheel,
The archive can also be unpacked on a concrete demand, can't it?
> and therefore probably missing out on some of the 20 years of wisdom
> embedded within autoconf, such as how to pass along things like --prefix,
> how to handle separate build and source trees, etc.
Are there any extensions needed like they would be supported by
the macro "AC_CONFIG_SUBDIR_CUSTOM" from Christian Rössel as a contribution
to the topic "Multiple subdirectories with non-similar configure needs"?
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2011-04/msg00006.html
Regards,
Markus
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, (continued)
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Earnie, 2015/09/04
- Re: Handling of sub-packages by autoconf interfaces, SF Markus Elfring, 2015/09/04
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Ralf Corsepius, 2015/09/04
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Sébastien Hinderer, 2015/09/04
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Wookey, 2015/09/04
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Warren Young, 2015/09/04
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Sébastien Hinderer, 2015/09/04
- Re: Handling of sub-packages by autoconf interfaces, SF Markus Elfring, 2015/09/04
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Warren Young, 2015/09/04
- Re: autocon and sub-packages, Warren Young, 2015/09/04
- Re: Handling of sub-packages by autoconf interfaces,
SF Markus Elfring <=