[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] autotoolize ipa-client

[Rob Crittenden]

Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 09:50 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> William Jon McCann wrote:
>>> On 10/16/07, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> William Jon McCann wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/16/07, Karl MacMillan <kmacmill at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 15:09 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is a patch to autotoolize ipa-client.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ ./configure
>>>>>> ./configure: line 1627: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found
>>>>>> ./configure: line 1629: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE: command not found
>>>>>> configure: Checking for Python
>>>>>> ./configure: line 1637: syntax error near unexpected token `2.3'
>>>>>> ./configure: line 1637: `AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.3)'
>>>>> Did you run autogen.sh?  Strange, this looks like automake is broken
>>>>> on your system.  Those are all standard macros.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Along these lines, I wonder if we need separate autoconf configurations
>>>> for each subdirectory. What do other large services do that include a
>>>> client and a server (Samba for example, or openldap)?
>>> It is usually based on how you package it.  There is usually one
>>> configure script per package: ipa-client, ipa-server, ipa-python, etc.
>> I'm not so sure about that and I think it would cause confusion (e.g. 
>> oops, forgot to use --prefix in one of the builds). I'm with John Dennis 
>> on this, one configure.ac to rule them all.
>>
> 
> That won't work because the rpm builds never see the top-level. They
> only see the tgz of the subdirectory.
> 
> Karl
> 

There are two ways to resolve this:

1. For each RPM you do:

cd freeipa-<VERSION>
./configure --options
cd directory_I_care_about
make all
make install
do rpm stuff

So each package contains all the source to freeIPA, not just that 
particular subdirectory.

2. You have a single spec file that creates a bunch of packages (ala 
openldap, amanda, openoffice, httpd and other big packages).

rob
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