[Kolab-devel] Kolab Build System - input required

[Stephan Buys]

Hello all,

We are about to start work on a standard build system for the Kolab server, 
but before we do we would like some input from you guys - so that the utility
is usefull to a broad audience.

We were thinking of using the GNU autoconfig system.
To build Kolab the steps would then be:

#./configure --prefix=/kolab --emaildomain=mydomain.com --hostname=myhostname
#make
#make install

With optional make targets like:
#make fetch

What do you think?

The reasoning behind this was that a) it is nice and standards based, b) we want to
learn autoconf :-)

I have seen in the history of the Kolab project that there have been several scripted
solutions, but they never seem to last. This would give us a system that everyone
will know how to use, and hopefully keep on using....


Any feedback appreciated!

Regards,
-- 
Stephan  Buys
Code Fusion cc.
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