Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > we seem to have gotten ratholed into which-make-style-is-better wars.
;-( > When it comes to integration into the solaris build process, there are > essentially only two credible options: > > 1) construct a new set of solaris-style makefiles and discard the > originals. This may be preferred if we want to change the filesystem layout of the ksh93 distribution and move stuff like "libast" (same was done with openssl&co.) to on/usr/src/lib/ (see http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/lib/). AFAIK in that case we have to create own own Makfiles. > 2) write a wrapper/bootstrap script which fires up the original build > system based on tools found in the existing build environment. AFAIK this is how MacOSX handles the problem... ;-/ > converting to a build system alien to both the original distribution > *and* the solaris sources is not worth discussing. Yes, I agree... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
