On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 09:28:03PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
On 08/12/11 02:49, Lukas Fleischer wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:05:20PM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:38:41PM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Lukas Fleischer <archlinux@cryptocrack.de> wrote:
Can some autotools wizard please check if I broke anything here? `make distcheck` still looks good to me but I'm not 100% sure what I broke by adding all scripts to "bin_SCRIPTS" :)
Before: `make install` does not install contrib/. After: `make install` installs contrib/. So probably not what we want, at least recursively or by default. It would be nice that if you were actually in contrib, `make install` would do what one expected (and kill the ugly hardcoding of each script needed to currently install [1]). Autotools probably makes a setup like this a bitch though. Thoughts from anyone else?
How about removing "contrib" from "SUBDIRS" in our main Makefile.am and adding something like "DIST_SUBDIRS = $(SUBDIRS) contrib"? This way, contrib scripts won't be installed when running `make install` in the top level source directory but can be easily installed by running `make install` in "contrib/"...
The problem there is it completely stops make from descending in there, and as I've seen many times before (namely with docs), it gets ugly when I have to package it. I think you'd be out of luck because your Makefile wouldn't even be generated in there, and thus *.in never gets converted to the scripts and other files.
It doesn't completely stop make from descending in there. As discussed on IRC, directories listed in "DIST_SUBDIRS" will still be honored when running `make dist`. The only difference is that we would have to run `make` and `make install` separately in "contrib/". This makes sense to me because:
* I consider contrib scripts a sub-project of (and not part of) pacman. If you say that they actually do belong to pacman, there should be a possibility to install contrib scripts when using make(1) (e.g. by introducing a configure option like "--with-contrib"). This seems very natural, at least.
Given that we probably do not want to install contrib scripts together with pacman and prefer separate install trees/procedures, it doesn't make any sense to build contrib scripts in the same procedure we use for building pacman, also. Basically, saying that you will have to run `make install` separately since it's a different sub-project but build it when building the main project feels a bit obscure...
tl;dr: To me, only one of these options make sense:
- Make contrib scripts optional but build *and* install them together with pacman (that means "introduce a configure option").
- Use a different build *and* install procedure for contrib scripts (that means "use DIST_SUBDIRS"!).
This option makes sense to me (and I have seen that sort of idea used elsewhere).
One query about this approach... Will running ./configure still generate the Makefile in contrib/ when doing this? Because having to maintain a separate configure script that does the same substitutions as the main one would be annoying.
Yeah, it will still generate the Makefile. I tested this running `./autoclean.sh; ./autogen.sh; ./configure`.
Allan