Re: autobuild logs for Libtool

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

On 23 Aug 2010, at 01:38, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:50:55PM CEST:
>> I think Libtool should use Autobuild, <http://josefsson.org/autobuild/>,
>> for testing, and developers as well as users should be encouraged to
>> send results to the gathering site.  It's about time I try to get my
>> various build setups sorted out in some manner suitable for that.
> 
> OK to commit?

My other comments on this thread notwithstanding, please go ahead...
if you have time and inclination to automate the setting of autobuild_mode
per those other comments before you push, so much the better.

> The AB_INIT invocation causes something like this extra info to appear
> in the configure output:
> 
> configure: autobuild project... GNU Libtool
> configure: autobuild revision... 2.2.11a (1.3227 2010-08-09)

is it about time we started using git-version-gen instead of our crazy
CVS version number faking script?

I'll do this before the pending release if you'd like.

> configure: autobuild hostname... fuchs
> configure: autobuild mode... default
> configure: autobuild timestamp... 20100822T183040Z
> 
> When you don't have autobuild installed, thus AB_INIT not defined,
> the patch should be a no-op.  autobuild will still be usable without
> the above output, it's just that the developer then needs to explicitly
> provide the information as command-line arguments to autobuild.
> 
> I'd rather avoid adding libltdl/m4/autobuild.m4 to our git, that might
> introduce version conflicts in the future.

Agreed.

> 
> A better long-term solution would be to start using gnulib-tool (for
> argz, autobuild, maybe eventually bootstrap),

Ack.

> but I *really* don't want
> to start experimenting with that option before the release.

Strongly agreed!


>    configure: use Autobuild AB_INIT if available.
> 
>    * configure.ac: Call AB_INIT if it is defined, with
>    $autobuild_mode as argument, to be set at configure time.
>    Set AB_VERSION to the Libtool version string.
>    * HACKING: Update.
>    * libltdl/m4/.gitignore: Ignore autobuild.m4.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)

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