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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	alistair23@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 12:39:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190516113902.GZ2798@zion.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190516111330.GA32248@aepfle.de>

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 01:13:30PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
> > At least to me it is far from obvious why we would want/need to
> > do this update, or where the canonical "latest version" lives and
> 
> It is not yet Friday. But I do blame GNU anyway for missing the obvious
> missing part in their 'configure;make;make install' paradigm:
> './autogen.sh' is what MUST be done before that. autotools are not
> runtime dependencies, they can be freely upgraded at any time.
> 
> It is 2019. Every variant of autotools out there works reasonable well.
> So please remove the configure crap from the repo, and leave just
> autogen.sh, m4/ and configure.ac in the SCM.

To be clear, I wouldn't mind dropping configure, but I think some older
autotools don't provide as many options as the new ones. If I were
building on a older distros I would appreciate having more flexibility
with the committed configure script.

I guess all I can say at this point is that I haven't done a survey on
the differences of the autotools shipped in all the distros we care
about (especially the older ones), so I would err on the safe side to
keep the in-tree configure script.

Wei.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Olaf



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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	alistair23@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 12:39:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190516113902.GZ2798@zion.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190516113902.FWQl0e8FZfB4dzK_1JbR_-RHPAkWuqjCcB_7qRIfuBc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190516111330.GA32248@aepfle.de>

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 01:13:30PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
> > At least to me it is far from obvious why we would want/need to
> > do this update, or where the canonical "latest version" lives and
> 
> It is not yet Friday. But I do blame GNU anyway for missing the obvious
> missing part in their 'configure;make;make install' paradigm:
> './autogen.sh' is what MUST be done before that. autotools are not
> runtime dependencies, they can be freely upgraded at any time.
> 
> It is 2019. Every variant of autotools out there works reasonable well.
> So please remove the configure crap from the repo, and leave just
> autogen.sh, m4/ and configure.ac in the SCM.

To be clear, I wouldn't mind dropping configure, but I think some older
autotools don't provide as many options as the new ones. If I were
building on a older distros I would appreciate having more flexibility
with the committed configure script.

I guess all I can say at this point is that I haven't done a survey on
the differences of the autotools shipped in all the distros we care
about (especially the older ones), so I would err on the safe side to
keep the in-tree configure script.

Wei.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Olaf



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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-16 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-16  0:02 [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02 ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen/drivers/char: Don't require vpl011 for all non-x86 archs Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02   ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 10:32   ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:32     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 19:30     ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 19:30       ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17  6:26       ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-17  6:26         ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-17 22:02         ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 22:02           ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17  8:46       ` Julien Grall
2019-05-17  8:46         ` [Xen-devel] " Julien Grall
2019-05-17 22:01         ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 22:01           ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-20  9:56           ` Julien Grall
2019-05-20  9:56             ` [Xen-devel] " Julien Grall
2019-05-16  0:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen/rwlock: Include lib.h Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02   ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 10:34   ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:34     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:31   ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 11:13   ` Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 11:13     ` [Xen-devel] " Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 11:39     ` Wei Liu [this message]
2019-05-16 11:39       ` Wei Liu
2019-05-16 11:44       ` Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 11:44         ` [Xen-devel] " Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 12:47         ` Wei Liu
2019-05-16 12:47           ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-16 13:18       ` Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 13:18         ` [Xen-devel] " Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 13:30         ` Wei Liu
2019-05-16 13:30           ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-16 19:27           ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 19:27             ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 16:37             ` Wei Liu
2019-05-17 16:37               ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-17 22:38               ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 22:38                 ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-18  9:51                 ` Wei Liu
2019-05-18  9:51                   ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-16 19:25   ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 19:25     ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 16:37     ` Wei Liu
2019-05-17 16:37       ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu

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