[imapfilter-devel] configure and Make script

[Michael Skibbe]

On Monday 19 March 2007 02:02, Lefteris Chatzimparmpas wrote:
> Michael Skibbe wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > it's very easy to maintain and develop autotool configuration files if
> > they are created once.
>
> I still consider imapfilter's current configure/build mechanism
> sufficient, at least for its complexity at this stage, and this has
> nothing to do with the fact that I'm not fond of the autotools...

what does your configure scripts do what my script cannot do?

> I believe that one cannot replace reading 5-10 lines from the
> installation (requirements, configuration, etc.) section of the README
> with autoconf, automake, etc.  The configure script supplied is as
> simple as it gets for enabling/disabling imapfilter's options.

but your configure script is much longer than my one (and much more complex) 
and do not check this. isn't a configure script a thing what configure the 
build process and if the build process not possible it should break.

> The only problem as I see it, are the include/library paths, something
> that can be addressed easily with pkg-config, since both Lua and PCRE
> seem to use that system now.
>
> Bottom line is that imapfilter should compile fine if you have installed
> Lua/PCRE/etc. in their default locations (if this isn't the case then 
> its a bug in imapfilter), and it's not really my problem if
> distributions move all the time names/locations of the libraries they
> install, and some major distributions already include imapfilter
> packages, therefore...
>
> > i hope you like this changes and import this to your project. it wasn't
> > easy to write these files.
> >
> > [...]
>
> I will look into the build system again, and also consider your work,
> for which I thank you, but in the meantime, I'm sorry, but I don't think
> that how hard was something to write is a reason to include it...

that's ok.

> L.
>
> PS. Also, I'm sorry for the delay but I was really busy trying to catch
> project deadlines and study for exams (and stay sane at the same time)...

no problem.

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