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

[Karl MacMillan]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 09:50 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> William Jon McCann wrote:
> > On 10/16/07, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> William Jon McCann wrote:
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> On 10/16/07, Karl MacMillan <kmacmill at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:09 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Here is a patch to autotoolize ipa-client.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Any ideas:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ ./configure
> >>>> ./configure: line 1627: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found
> >>>> ./configure: line 1629: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE: command not found
> >>>> configure: Checking for Python
> >>>> ./configure: line 1637: syntax error near unexpected token `2.3'
> >>>> ./configure: line 1637: `AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.3)'
> >>> Did you run autogen.sh?  Strange, this looks like automake is broken
> >>> on your system.  Those are all standard macros.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> 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)?
> > 
> > It is usually based on how you package it.  There is usually one
> > configure script per package: ipa-client, ipa-server, ipa-python, etc.
> 
> I'm not so sure about that and I think it would cause confusion (e.g. 
> oops, forgot to use --prefix in one of the builds). I'm with John Dennis 
> on this, one configure.ac to rule them all.
> 

That won't work because the rpm builds never see the top-level. They
only see the tgz of the subdirectory.

Karl