[hobbit] Any plan for hobbit to use GNU autoconf ?

[T.J. Yang]

>From: henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)
>Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Any plan for hobbit to use GNU autoconf ?
>Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 14:16:01 +0200
>
>On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 06:26:16AM -0500, T.J. Yang wrote:
> > Is there a reason that autoconf is not used ?
> >
> > I have the book(R1) , interest and some spare time.
> >
> > R1: http://sourceware.org/autobook/
>
>It's mostly due to the fact that I have never developed configuration
>scripts that use autoconf, so it was easier (i.e. faster) for me to
>just work around the various configuration oddities that the Unix
>flavours have.

I am a autoconf consumer, hoping to be a producer.

>If you look through the Hobbit source, you will actually find very few
>places where it has been necessary to write platform-specific code.
>Try running
>  find . -name "*.[ch]" | \
>  xargs egrep "ifdef|ifndef|if defined" | \
>  egrep -v "ifndef 
>_.*_H|MEMORY_DEBUG|STANDALONE|BBGEN_|RRDTOOL12|LDAP|BEA2"
>and you'll see that it's mostly whether select() is in sys/select.h,
>and some code that depends on large file support.

Thanks for the pointer here.

>So the benefit of learning and migrating the code to use autoconf has
>not been large enough for me to actually go ahead and do it.
>
>But I am always open to patches from people who have an interest in
>enhancing Hobbit. So if you would like to do it, please do!

I will do it as an autoconf beginner's exercise.

tj

>
>Regards,
>Henrik
>
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