[Ovirt-devel] Patch Series for build refactoring

[Perry N. Myers]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:42:00AM -0400, Perry N. Myers wrote:
>> The following patches:
>> [PATCH server] Restructured makefile and rpmbuilding to simplify it
>> [PATCH release] Restructured makefile and rpmbuilding to simplify it
>> [PATCH node-image] Restructured makefile and rpmbuilding to simplify it
>> [PATCH node] Removed dummy bumpgit target since the rest of the repos have 
>> been converted
>> [PATCH docs] Restructured makefile and rpmbuilding to simplify it
>> [PATCH appliance] Restructured makefile and rpmbuilding to simplify it
>>
>> Convert all of the remaining repos to autoconf and simplify the makefiles 
>> significantly.  They all need to be applied at the same time if you're 
>> using ovirt.mk to build things since there were some interdependencies.
>>
>> Aside from general autoconf'ing the other significant changes are in the 
>> way the versioning is handled.  It's now similar to what the libvirt 
>> project does, which I assume is a standard way of doing things... :)
>>
>> I also removed setting overrides for rpmmacros (except for oVirt specific 
>> rpmmacros).
>>
>> Please give these patches a whirl for building and let me know how they 
>> work out.
>>
>> The last bit that I want to get done after these patches go in is removing 
>> the stuff from %build in both ovirt-appliance and ovirt-node-image and 
>> putting it in the Makefile and then calling make from %build.  This is 
>> cleaner and allows the images to be built without needing the RPM packaging.
> 
> This stuff all looks very good so gets my vote.

Thanks.  This has been committed after making the changes suggested by Dan 
and Jim re: extra_release vs. git_release and AC_OUTPUT.

Perry