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From: Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
To: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: My experiences building GNATS 4.1.0
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050323165911.GA18936@wookimus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050323102144.253729fe.mishka@apk.od.ua>


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By the way, it isn't GNATS 4.10.  You're about 9 releases in the future.
;-)

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:21:44AM +0200, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> Another question is why build process so unclean (missing .c files,
> missing variables, some "magic" explicit rules at the end of makefile,
> and so on)?

Historical remnants.

> IMHO we should cleanup makefiles to be compliant to generic make rules
> or use GNU atomake framework (but I'm personally are not familiar with
> GNU build tools). Which way more preferred?

I would like to see a migration to automake and a single configure.ac
file.  However, I didn't want to hold up rolling out 4.1.0 any longer
than necessary.  Now that we've reached that milestone, we can look into
cleaning it up a bit more.

-- 
Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>           http://www.wookimus.net/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-23 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-06 21:07 GNATS 4.1.0 Released! Chad Walstrom
2005-03-07 17:35 ` David S Gathright
2005-03-07 18:10   ` 'Chad Walstrom'
2005-03-08 15:42     ` 'Chad Walstrom'
2005-03-08  2:44   ` David S Gathright
2005-03-23  8:35 ` My experiences building GNATS 4.10 Tim Buck
2005-03-23 13:37   ` Mike M. Volokhov
2005-03-23 15:33     ` Tim Buck
2005-03-24  9:07     ` Chad Walstrom [this message]
2005-03-28 16:59       ` My experiences building GNATS 4.1.0 Mike M. Volokhov

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