Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Future direction for Autoconf macro handling in OpenAFS

2010-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Altman
On 7/3/2010 10:23 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> README-WINDOWS can and should be folded into README. > > Agreed. Personally I would like to see README have a pointer to another file that is located in the doc tree for the Windows environment setup. README-WINDOWS is a non-trivial amount of text tha

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Future direction for Autoconf macro handling in OpenAFS

2010-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeffrey Hutzelman writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think it's confusing to put things into acinclude.m4 that are only >> used by configure.in. This is unlike the way nearly every other free >> software program using Autoconf uses its configure.ac file and is >> unnecessarily confusing for con

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Future direction for Autoconf macro handling in OpenAFS

2010-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
--On Thursday, July 01, 2010 01:43:51 PM -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: No thanks. I'd much rather have one "main program" than two, even if that means conditionalizing some things on which configure script we're building, as acinclude.m4 currently does. I actually believe the current split is cl

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Future direction for Autoconf macro handling in OpenAFS

2010-07-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeffrey Hutzelman writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> One of the things that makes OpenAFS's configure script difficult to >> maintain right now is the giant acinclude.m4 file, which is the >> equivalent of putting all the code of a complicated module in a single >> function. Breaking code into sep

Re: [OpenAFS-devel] Future direction for Autoconf macro handling in OpenAFS

2010-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
--On Thursday, June 24, 2010 01:20:10 PM -0700 Russ Allbery wrote: One of the things that makes OpenAFS's configure script difficult to maintain right now is the giant acinclude.m4 file, which is the equivalent of putting all the code of a complicated module in a single function. Breaking code

[OpenAFS-devel] Future direction for Autoconf macro handling in OpenAFS

2010-06-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Moving this here from Gerrit. This is a proposal, not a finalized position. Please review and comment, and then we'll take some form of this and put it into README.DEVEL. One of the things that makes OpenAFS's configure script difficult to maintain right now is the giant acinclude.m4 file, which