Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-19 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi ras, r. a. schmied writes: > i've embedded some more text way down towards the bottom > regarding the AS_CASE(x$host_os,...) call and my solution > history as related to/with solaris 10 sparc and its libusb. > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> [...] >> By all means share your "hack". Thanks for

Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi, r. a. schmied writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Hi! >> >> TL;DR I am going to merge this shortly after 2019-06-12 10:00 UTC unless >> someone raises objection here or in the [merge request][0]. >> [...] > > aloha olaf and interested saners > > i've got one of those out-of-band systems (sun

Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Rolf, Povilas, list, Povilas Kanapickas writes: > Hi Rolf, Olaf, > > On 2019-06-16 14:43, Rolf Bensch wrote: >> Hi Olaf, >> >> Unfortunately `./autogen.sh` isn't working with Ubuntu Xenial: Why do you want to run it in the first place? I mean, if I were going to do development on Ubuntu,

Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-16 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Hi Rolf, Olaf, On 2019-06-16 14:43, Rolf Bensch wrote: > Hi Olaf, > > Unfortunately `./autogen.sh` isn't working with Ubuntu Xenial: > > $ ./autogen.sh > autoreconf: Entering directory `.' > autoreconf: running: autopoint --force > autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your

Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-16 Thread Rolf Bensch
Hi Olaf, Unfortunately `./autogen.sh` isn't working with Ubuntu Xenial: $ ./autogen.sh autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: running: autopoint --force autopoint: *** The AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION declaration in your configure.ac    file requires the infrastructure from

Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-12 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi all, Olaf Meeuwissen writes: > Hi Louis, > > Louis Lagendijk writes: > >> On Sat, 2019-06-08 at 13:32 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> TL;DR I am going to merge this shortly after 2019-06-12 10:00 UTC >>> unless >>> someone raises objection here or in the [merge request][0]. >>>

Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-08 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Sat, 2019-06-08 at 13:32 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi! > > TL;DR I am going to merge this shortly after 2019-06-12 10:00 UTC > unless > someone raises objection here or in the [merge request][0]. > > [0]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/72 I agree, getting te

Re: [sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-08 Thread r. a. schmied
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: Hi! TL;DR I am going to merge this shortly after 2019-06-12 10:00 UTC unless someone raises objection here or in the [merge request][0]. [0]: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/merge_requests/72 Longer story follows below. Povilas Kanapickas writes: Hi all,

[sane-devel] Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository

2019-06-01 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Hi all, I propose we remove files from the source repository that are generated by autoconf and friends and ask the developers to do that. The primary motivation for this change is that the content of the generated files depends on the autotools version. Thus it makes harder for the developers