Re: [fetchmail-devel] automake migration

[Rob F. <rf...@fu...>]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> I had to add this to get "make distcheck" working.

I get it.

> In the long run, it
> might be worthwhile converting the documentation to DocBook XML where
> appropriate, I believe ESR's doclifter can help with that, which will
> directly open PDF, man and HTML output formats.

Yeah, good idea.

> I fear the whole stuff is fairly atomic in the sense that I've only
> tested with the full change set applied, not in separate.

I'm OK with intermediate steps that aren't really tested. I like to be able 
to see the process.  I'm not one who worries about each committed revision 
being usable.

I'll say go ahead and commit it.  You may want to put it on an AUTOMAKE 
branch, but I'll leave that up to you.   If you put it on the trunk I'd 
suggest making a PRE_AUTOMAKE tag first.

> > It might be good to create a "bootstrap" script that removes that
> > cache directory and does the autoreconf.  And then change the
> > makerelease script to call that instead of "aclocal && autoconf".
>
> I don't like custom bootstrap scripts much.
> I have yet to see one that is better than "autoreconf" - and
> autom4te.cache will only need to be removed after a system upgrade, but
> not on a fresh checkout, so most people will get away without rm -rf.

Well, the bootstrap script I'm talking about would just codify what you're 
writing into the README.svn, particularly autoreconf and the options to 
use with it.  That way it's visible without looking too hard, and is 
callable from things like makerelease.  If we ever need to change the 
autoreconf options I only want to change it in one place.

> >> A      dist-tools/Makefile.am
> >
> > I wouldn't think we'd need a makefile there.
>
> For the time being we'll need one if you want "make distcheck" to work,

OK, no big deal.

> autopoint will create the intl/ directory and populate it if you have
> gettext 0.13.0 or newer installed - this is the "generated files"
> category (copied files actually) - just try the tarball and you'll see.
>
> No jinx here, good magic. :)

Got it.  Cool.

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