From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30995 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2005 09:07:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.gnu.org) (199.232.76.165) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 24 Mar 2005 09:07:05 -0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEOY8-0004xy-QZ for listarch-gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:22:45 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEOVa-0004Bp-Uw for help-gnats@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:20:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEOVX-0004Aj-0Q for help-gnats@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:20:04 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEOUM-0002xu-KE for help-gnats@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 04:18:50 -0500 Received: from [195.138.79.154] (helo=relay.apk.od.ua) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1DENqH-0005Z9-1k for help-gnats@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 03:37:27 -0500 Received: from nostromo.holding.local (nostromo.holding.local [10.1.1.8]) by relay.apk.od.ua (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j2O8amfx012231 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:36:54 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:59:00 -0000 From: "Mike M. Volokhov" To: help-gnats@gnu.org Message-Id: <20050324103647.165734d5.mishka@apk.od.ua> In-Reply-To: <20050323165911.GA18936@wookimus.net> References: <20050306205715.GB30918@wookimus.net> <20050323102144.253729fe.mishka@apk.od.ua> <20050323165911.GA18936@wookimus.net> Organization: Insakharprom-K, Ltd. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.99-gtk2-20041024 (GTK+ 2.4.13; i386--netbsdelf) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/781/Wed Mar 23 13:58:42 2005 on betty.holding.local X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: My experiences building GNATS 4.1.0 X-BeenThere: help-gnats@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion about GNU GNATS List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: help-gnats-bounces+listarch-gnats-devel=sources.redhat.com@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnats-bounces+listarch-gnats-devel=sources.redhat.com@gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2005-q1/txt/msg00088.txt.bz2 On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:59:11 -0600 Chad Walstrom wrote: > 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 Yep. > 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. As for me that was correctness decision. Thanks for you work, Chad! -- Best wishes, Mishka. _______________________________________________ Help-gnats mailing list Help-gnats@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats