Re: how to realize a medium coupled build environment?

[Stephan Kulow]

Marc van Woerkom wrote:
> 
> Hello Stephan,
> 
> I looked at the build management in kdebase-2.0.
> Very interesting to see how you guys did it.
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. I am still not sure, if modules should have their
>    own configure script.
>    My position so far was that there is only one
>    configuration, for the whole tree.
>    What is the benefit of sub-configure scripts?
They don't have it. There is only one configure, but it's created
from several configure.in.ins. The idea is to make parts of the
modules interchangable.
> 
> 2. You use this sequence in your Makefile.cvs bootstrap:
> 
>     @echo "*** Building Makefile templates (step one)"
>     @automake
>     @echo "*** Scanning for moc files and kde tags"
>     @perl admin/am_edit
>     @echo "*** Building Makefile templates (step two)"
>     @autoconf
> 
>    Why does one need to have a autoconf call after
>    the automake call?
>    My belief was that automake is responsible for the
>    autoconf calls.
No, it's not

Greetings, Stephan

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