[Sqlgrey-users] autoconf for SQLgrey

[Kyle L. <la...@uc...>]

I wrote:
> I've got a basic GNU autoconf scheme working with sqlgrey-1.8.0-rc1.

...and here it is. There's a fair number of steps involved.

  * The following files need to be renamed from 'filename'
    to 'filename.in':

    Makefile
    sqlgrey-logstats.pl
    sqlgrey
    sqlgrey.spec
    tester.pl
    update_sqlgrey_config

  * The attached patch needs to be applied, which modifies
    all of the above-listed files to use @macro_definitions@
    instead of hard-coded path names.

  * There are three new files that land in the top-level source
    directory (attached):

    aclocal.m4
    configure.ac
    install-sh

  * The 'VERSION' file should be removed. The only place that the
    version needs to be set is in configure.ac. If you really felt
    like keeping the VERSION file around, rename it to VERSION.in,
    etc. etc. etc.

I would suggest invoking autoconf, and committing the resulting configure
script as part of the distributed source code, in addition to the above.
Yes, it doubles the total size of the package, and is amusing for that
reason.

I did not do an exhaustive search through the source code base for
other hard-coded paths, so there may yet be more files that would
benefit from adopting this scheme.

I also used arbitrary version numbers in configure.ac for the required
perl modules. Those are by no means real requirements. Someone that is
familiar with the usage of these modules might want to suggest more
realistic lower-bounds.

The version requirement in configure.ac for a specific version of
autoconf (2.60), however, should be real. I confirmed that it does
not work with autoconf 2.59, but did my testing with autoconf 2.65.
It looks like 2.62 also works.

I think these modifications (once properly thrashed around, of course)
would be very helpful to include with the 1.8.0 release.

--Kyle