Re: [fetchmail-devel] automake migration

[R.O. B. <com...@bl...>]

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:25:39 -0400,
Rob Funk <rf...@fu...> wrote:

> R.O. Blättner wrote:
> > Did I get it right that this is opposed to ESR's tarballs where
> > always some auto* stuff was running while doing "make config" ?
>
> I'm not sure I understand your question....

My failure :-)

> The tarballs we produce will be very much like ESR's tarballs.

Sounds good !

> Whenever you run "configure", that configure script was produced by
> autoconf. In the past it was ESR's installation of autoconf that produced
> the configure script.  Autoconf itself never actually runs on your machine
> when you compile fetchmail, only the script it produces.  Now it will be
> our (the main developers) installations of autoconf that produce the
> configure script.

Hmm, may be I was wrong in believing autoconf running
while doing a "make config" (in ESR's releases).
Next Monday I'll do a more precise look at
logfiles of my last build process.

> Except now our installations of automake will also contribute, which makes
> things easier for us.  That change will not be very noticable to you
> unless you pay attention to the makefiles or get the code from the
> Subversion repository.

O.K., normally I'll not get the sources directly from SVN as long
as tarball releases are not too sparse in time..

> > Hi, Rob, many THX for Your quick and enlightening response !
>
> You're welcome!

:-)

> > So I may continue to test (nearly) every release
> > as I've done in the past ...   :-)
> >
> > When time permits I may contribute some fixes too in the future.
>
> Looking forward to it!

Hope, I'll have time .. :-)

THX,

rolf
-- 
Dipl.phys. Rudolf Otto Blättner,
D 91074 Herzogenaurach, Germany.