From: David Bremner Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 02:20:39 +0000 (+2000) Subject: Re: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd2ae1b2b604b5985aa0cc3e39e35cbb417fbbba;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform --- diff --git a/4e/18741706844a2ff91686701ab53215582e400e b/4e/18741706844a2ff91686701ab53215582e400e new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e8b67f102 --- /dev/null +++ b/4e/18741706844a2ff91686701ab53215582e400e @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +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 9178A431FAF + for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:47 -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 6xhiRGpZOCbq for ; + Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:47 -0800 (PST) +Received: from tesseract.cs.unb.ca (tesseract.cs.unb.ca [131.202.240.238]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6C7B431FAE + for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:46 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fctnnbsc30w-142166230117.dhcp-dynamic.fibreop.nb.bellaliant.net + ([142.166.230.117] helo=zancas.localnet) + by tesseract.cs.unb.ca with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) + (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) + id 1S4NXY-0002DR-Lh; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:20:45 -0400 +Received: from bremner by zancas.localnet with local (Exim 4.77) + (envelope-from ) + id 1S4NXT-0004KH-De; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:20:39 -0400 +From: David Bremner +To: Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: [rfc] autotools compatibility and Hurd as platform +In-Reply-To: + <1330792823-6049-1-git-send-email-4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> +References: + <1330792823-6049-1-git-send-email-4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.11.1+264~gcfc5f10 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/23.3.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:20:39 -0400 +Message-ID: <87k42zokjs.fsf@zancas.localnet> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii +X-Spam_bar: - +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: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:20:47 -0000 + +On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:21 +0100, Justus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> wrote: + +> 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. + +The second solution sounds better to me. The only issue we might +encounter is dealing with multi-arch installation properly. But I guess +we don't do that now anyway, so no real loss. + +d + +