On 21/06/07, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> we have copies of those m4 macro packages, so that developers that don't have
> them can still develop opensc without installing them first.
>
> I'm ok with updating them or dropping them in favor of requireing everyone to
> have them.

OK.

> I have no clue why gettextize is required. I never run it and didn't see any
> error or warning indicating that I should.

I have no real idea either. I had the problem on a Debian Etch system.
On my Lenny (testing) system I do not have any problem with ./bootstrap

> maybe it has something to do with your autoconf/make/libtool versions?
> I know that latest automake(2.10?) seems to be incompatible with opensc,
> no idea why, but the debian/ubuntu automake 2.9 packages work fine.

I will redo some tests on Etch and try to identify the source of the problem.

> what do you suggest, how shall we proceed?

Do nothing for now. Or maybe remove the 3 .m4 files that "should" not
be in OpenSC and see if problems are reported.

> personally I'd like to investigate cmake. if we can use that for our windows
> build it would help a lot, as it can create visual studio project files, and
> that way we can create debug versions too and use the visual studio for
> debugging etc. (something I have absolutely no clue about - but people tell
> me with a visual studio project and a debug build it should be much easier to
> find a bug). if cmake works out for the windows build we can consider it for
> linux/unix too. but we are quite far away from that point. I only mention it
> so in case we would need to invest lots and lots of time on automake, we
> could check that alternative.

I tried cmake on a project for Linux and Mac OS X. I found some bugs
in cmake on Mac (reported upstream).
The main concern I have is that I have not found an equivalent of
"make dist" and "make distcheck". You may use cpack for that but I
have not tried it yet.

If I am right the user has to install cmake on his machine to be able
to compile a cmakified project. It may be less easy than running
./configure (without having to install autoconf/automake/libtool
first).

Regards,

-- 
  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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