[imapfilter-devel] configure and Make script (was: IMAPFilter 1.3)

[Michael Skibbe]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:40, Michael Skibbe wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 07:45, Michael Skibbe wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 14:44, Lefteris Chatzimparmpas wrote:
> > > Michael Skibbe wrote:
> > > > On Friday 16 February 2007 14:39, Lefteris Chatzimparmpas wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > >> If you don't want support for PCRE, you can just do:
> > > >>
> > > >>   ./configure -o pcre=no
> > > >>
> > > >> ... before building the imapfilter distribution.
> > > >>
> > > >> L.
> > > >
> > > > ahh... interesting. but shouldn't the configure script tell me this?
> > > > or automatically do "./configure -o pcre=no"?
> > > >
> > > > greetings
> > > > Michael
> > >
> > > What do you mean?
> >
> > mhh... ok... i do not have installed these files.
> > i have:
> > run configure - no error
> > run make - "mystic" error
> >
> > i want:
> > run configure - error "error you need bla bla bla"
> >
> > i take a look on your configure script and try to write a rule.
>
> ok. i saw that you wrote your own configure script which cat the Makefile.
> IMHO it's better to use the autotools (autoconf, autoheader, ...). I wrote
> the autotool configuration files for your project. Attached you can find a
> tarball with version 1.3 and my changes.
>
> files i changed:
> i included conf.h in all headers so you do not need to do things
> like "-DNO_ssltls" or something else because in the generated conf.h this
> varibles are declared.
>
> files important for the autotools.
> configure.ac
> Makefile.am
> src/Makefile.am
> man/Makefile.am
> samples/Makefile.am
>
> other changes:
> i created three subfolders - man, src and samples - each including only the
> files which they should include to create a simple but usefull structure.
>
> howto use autotools - crash lesson:
> simple type in
> # autoreconf -fi
> # ./configure
> # make
> # sudo make install
>
> what is better with autotools?
> type in "./configure -h" and see all the configuration this which are
> automatically generated. i inserted only two options:
>   --without-ssltls        disable support for Secure Socket Layer and
>                           Transport Layer Security
>   --without-crammd5       disable support for Challenge-Response
>                           Authentication Mechanism
> which are in your configure file, too.
>
> it's very easy to maintain and develop autotool configuration files if they
> are created once.
>
> i hope you like this changes and import this to your project. it wasn't
> easy to write these files.
>
> [...]

did anyone take a look on this? what do you think about this? can I give more 
informations?

greetings
Michael


> greetings
> Michael
>
> P.S. i created some configure checks. ./configure checks that lua and pcre
> is installed and usable if not there is an error output.


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