Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Martin Gagnon
Le 2011-06-15 à 19:07, Mike Meyer a écrit : > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:55:18 -0700 > Matt Welland wrote: >> I thought that from an end user perspective all that is needed with autoconf >> is sh. > > Not quite true. The problem is that, while every system has a /bin/sh, > different systems use dif

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Meyer
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:55:18 -0700 Matt Welland wrote: > I thought that from an end user perspective all that is needed with autoconf > is sh. Not quite true. The problem is that, while every system has a /bin/sh, different systems use different shells for that: most (but not all) GNU/Linux syste

[fossil-users] 'configure', a binary blob

2011-06-15 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
I'm happy to see that 'fossil' recognises the configure script in http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/57ca24966f as a binary file. That does not require hard AI, but in this case fossil made a good guess. :) ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Eric Junkermann
On 15 Jun 2011, at 16:28, Andres Perera wrote: i (now) prefer autotools because i spent some time getting comfortable with m4 Yes, I think failure to understand m4, or failure to realise that it needs to be understood, is one reason why people end up disliking autotools. Eric

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:03:03AM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > So, I'm asking for volunteers for people with better autoconf-foo than me, > to put together an autoconf/automake setup for Fossil. If you are good with > autoconf/automake, please consider contributing your expertise to the > project

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Andres Perera
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hello Graeme, > > On 2011-06-15 11:04, Graeme Gill wrote: >> Michal Suchanek wrote: >>> Autotools can be installed and operated on Windows like most other >>> build configuration systems. >> >> I'm not sure that's possible without installing a

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 07:04:24PM +1000, Graeme Gill wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: > > Autotools can be installed and operated on Windows like most other > > build configuration systems. > > I'm not sure that's possible without installing a UNIX like shell > and set of tools. This is rather for

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Arjen Markus
Hello Graeme, On 2011-06-15 11:04, Graeme Gill wrote: > Michal Suchanek wrote: >> Autotools can be installed and operated on Windows like most other >> build configuration systems. > > I'm not sure that's possible without installing a UNIX like shell > and set of tools. This is rather foreign for

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Graeme Gill
Michal Suchanek wrote: > Autotools can be installed and operated on Windows like most other > build configuration systems. I'm not sure that's possible without installing a UNIX like shell and set of tools. This is rather foreign for a native MSWin developer. Graeme Gill.

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 June 2011 08:37, Alexander Vladimirov wrote: > how abouth this: http://buildconf.brlcad.org A script like that is standard part of many autotoolized projects. In fact, most people can't build an autotoolized project (other than release tarballs with pre-generated configure that happens to w

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 15 June 2011 09:47, Twylite wrote: > On 09:59 PM, Matt Welland wrote: >> For fossil you could keep the files generated by autoconf (not the >> ./configure step but the initialization step) checked in. Then it is >> just ./configure && make install on most systems. For anything weird >> (e.g. wi

Re: [fossil-users] Needed: volunteer to autoconf Fossil

2011-06-15 Thread Twylite
On 09:59 PM, Matt Welland wrote: > For fossil you could keep the files generated by autoconf (not the > ./configure step but the initialization step) checked in. Then it is > just ./configure && make install on most systems. For anything weird > (e.g. windows) provide a Makefile.win32 or similar