On Tue, 2006 Aug 15 19:29:22 -0700, Bernard Li wrote:
>
> We could definitely use your expertise in autoconf/automake. Right now
> the immediate need would be to figure out the best way to remove the
> dependencies on the extra libraries we ship with Ganglia that are not
> necessary part of Ganglia code. Will you be interested in helping us
> address that?
Certainly, though this should be straightforward. I see three basic steps:
1. Add appropriate new options to the configure script
(--with-expat-prefix=PFX or whatever). If the package already
distributes an M4 macro, this will be trivial.
2. Change references to the appropriate libraries (e.g.
"-I.../expat-lib" becomes "$(EXPAT_CPPFLAGS)" or whatever;
".../expat/libexpat.la" becomes "$(EXPAT_LIBS)" or the like)
3. svn rm
I assume libmetrics is going to stay in the tree, but why does it have its
own configure script et al.?
> Basically the goal would be to use the distro-provided libraries instead
> of the ones we provide. We plan to ship the extra libraries in a
> separate tarball so that OSes that do not have them will still work.
Sounds good. You could have a convenience/wrapper script that handles the
build of the dependencies + ganglia, to save Unix-y users the three or four
separate "configure, make, make install" cycles. (A poor man's GARNOME, if
you will.)
--Daniel
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