From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 16:40:21 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ceb2f3b09a3617f7e4799f92e2c9396f3d6ef98a;p=notmuch-archives.git [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform --- diff --git a/62/534eb2b55ca15ebcbf6a704471d8460cd27e9a b/62/534eb2b55ca15ebcbf6a704471d8460cd27e9a new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b48f9a0e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/62/534eb2b55ca15ebcbf6a704471d8460cd27e9a @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B127431FAF + for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:40:33 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id I42yXF8j0IaB for ; + Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:40:33 -0800 (PST) +Received: from mail.cryptobitch.de (cryptobitch.de [88.198.7.68]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0C99C431FAE + for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 08:40:33 -0800 (PST) +Received: from mail.jade-hamburg.de (unknown [85.183.11.228]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by mail.cryptobitch.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 81B2A418213 + for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:31 +0100 (CET) +Received: by mail.jade-hamburg.de (Postfix, from userid 401) + id 6E3BFDF2A3; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:30 +0100 (CET) +Received: from thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de (unknown [85.183.11.228]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: teythoon) + by mail.jade-hamburg.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ADC03DF2A1 + for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:29 +0100 (CET) +Received: from teythoon by thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de with local (Exim 4.77) + (envelope-from ) + id 1S3s0S-0007X5-Dg + for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:40:28 +0100 +From: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> +To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform +Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:21 +0100 +Message-Id: + <1330792823-6049-1-git-send-email-4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> +X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.9.1 +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:40:33 -0000 + +I made two tiny patches to enable notmuch to be built on the Hurd, the +first one is straight forward, it just adds GNU as a platform and +reuses the settings for Linux. + +The second one deals with the problem that the value passed as an +argument to --build is not a triple but a tuple: + +% dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE +i486-gnu + +notmuchs configure script expects the arguments for --host and --build +to be triple but autotools is much more forgiving here. It does so by +canonicalizing the values using some serious voodoo in +/usr/share/misc/config.sub. + +The patch reuses config.sub to canonicalize the arguments, but this +introduces a build dependency on autotools and probably worse, it uses +autotools internals and the path to config.sub has to be hardcoded. + +Since this might be not desirable we might also just drop the code +that parses the --host and --build options since we're not using them +anyway. + +With these two patches notmuch builds fine and works on the Hurd, the +testsuite is running fine (modulo one test, but that might be broken, +haven't checked on linux) and the python bindings are fine too (I've +been successfully running afew to tag some mails). + +Cheers, +Justus