Hi Kevin,

On 2026-05-31T15:57:30+0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 07:57:43AM +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
> > I implemented this for w3m a few days ago and was wondering if this
> > might be of interest for mutt. The idea is that all build configurations
> > live in a shell script rather then being split over multiple build
> > manifests. This allows to test all configurations locally by just
> > calling the script. It also avoid having to write the same config over
> > and over again for every manifest.
> 
> This sounds reasonable.
> 
> > Note that this currently breaks the CI as I found out, that the
> > 'original' task was different depending on the image we were building
> > on. E.g. on Alpine we use --with-sasl while on OpenBSD we used
> > --without-sasl.
> 
> Is this something you need help resolving? i.e., Do we just need to
> update the required packages, or is there a bug to resolve?
> 
> > Please bikeshed the script name 'build' and if it should be placed in
> > the root directory. I kept the name from w3m, but there it is placed
> > in the test directory which makes it more obvious what the intend is.
> 
> :D.  I don't want to dictate, since you've put the effort in.  My only
> comment is that "build" sounds like something an ordinary user might try
> running after checking out the git repos.  So I would vote for moving the
> script somewhere (under .builds if that is legal), and/or renaming it to
> something less tempting to run, such as ci-build.

I would like to avoid hidden dirs.  Could we use something like
scripts/?


Have a lovely day!
Alex

> 
> > If there is interest I will continue to fix the build problems and unify
> > the build configurations.
> 
> Absolutely, from my point of view.  I appreciate your work on this!
> 
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