On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:36:55PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 10:28:07AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... > > When I originally wrote the buildexports stuff, we didn't require Perl to > > build Apache, because that file could be generated once and just bundled > > with Apache. With the move to create those files during the build steps, > > we now require Perl just to build. I think the best solution is to move > > that step back to the buildconf script, because that allows us to bundle > > these files with the packages. > > We can make *.exports at release-time and bundle them into the distro. The > files won't be regenerated since they already exists. >... > Keeping it in the make step is important for the developers. When the > headers change, it is nice to have the exports automatically updated. When > Jeff took out some of the address lookup stuff, it got rebuilt for me and > everything was happy. No re-running buildconf just to get rid of it.
I just thought of something. Nothing precludes us from building *.exports in buildconf (e.g. in prep for a release). The make step remains for developers when they update the header files. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
