[1319] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: sub-packages of krb5 for autoconf purposes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Fri Jun 14 15:30:36 1996
To: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tlyu@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 14 Jun 1996 15:30:05 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Barry Jaspan"'s message of Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:46:36 -0400
While I certainly support redesigning the build system, and
that is what implementing Tom's suggestion involves, , I will point
out that it is a great deal of work; as many directories depend on
being able to insert things into Makefiles from configure.in.
In particular, dealing with the shared libraries will be
particularly problematic.
I hope that whoever does the build redesign does so on a
branch, as things will be broken for a significant period of time.
Also, it's something that should be tested on all platforms; it would
be annoying to be unable to build Kerberos simply because the build
system was in transtition.
I realize these points are obvious, but there were weeks last
summer while Paul was frobbing Makefiles, where I could get nothing
done on some platforms. I hope the same doesn't happen this summer.
--Sam
