[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] autotoolize ipa-client

[John Dennis]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Along these lines, I wonder if we need separate autoconf configurations 
> for each subdirectory. What do other large services do that include a 
> client and a server (Samba for example, or openldap)?

Do you mean its own configure.ac et. al.? Probably not, unless the 
client and server are packaged independently and have their own 
indpendent configuration. What some RPM's in this instance do is to run 
configure twice, and build select parts of the tree.

 From what I know of IPA I don't see a need for this, one configure.ac 
to rule them all :-)

> Also, make dist-clean still leaves a slew of autoconf-generated files. I 
> think we should have a make target that removes everything 
> auto-generated, if not dist-clean then something else. Or we can leave 
> them around as most projects do, but we should decide now.

What is dist clean not removing? It should be everything autoconf 
generated. Other generated files may need to be removed by specifying
DISTCLEANFILES or BUILT_SOURCES

-- 
John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>