Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics we discussed

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ales Hvezda wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> [snip]
>
> > I wonder if its time to make use of AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS() and stick a very 
> > brief configure.ac at the top level.  I've not done this before, but I 
> > wonder if it would let you turn gaf from several tarballs and 
> > ./configure && make && make install invocations into 1 tarball and 1 
> > config/install.  I think that would go a long way to making it easier 
> > for most users.
>
>
> 	In theory, the toplevel makefile should take care of everything:
>
> make
> set the environment vars
> make install
>
> 	and it's far simpler than a configure script.  gEDA/gaf is split
> up the way it is to make the package maintainers happy.  However, I will
> consider other alternatives like creating a super tarball or such.  Or maybe
> just hope that Stuart's CDROM takes care of all such issues. :)

this is assuming everything in the top level makefile is essentially 
correct for your system.   Actually, what would make things easier for 
the NetBSD package maintainer (me) is a single package instead of 9. 
The trick is gschem, for example, would need to be taught to build 
against the not-yet-installed libgeda.

But then again, I don't have to update the NetBSD packages that often so 
its not a huge issue.

-Dan