[Kolab-devel] yet another way to build kolab

[Richard Bos]

Is there really no opinion about this autotools stuff at all, being it 
positive or negative?

Op dinsdag 1 juni 2004 23:15, schreef Richard Bos:
> > No, there is no freeze date for kolab yet. I briefly discussed it with
> > Stephan from Code Fusion, and we agreed to try and release Kolab 2.0
> > around November. But that can very well change.
>
> Does it mean that for example big changes may happen now, like the cvs
> reshuffling?  If so I can continue with this email :)
>
> As stated in the subject I have an alternative Makefile for some kolab cvs
> modules.  My favorite one at the moment is the one for kolab-webadmin.  The
> latter because there are no real differences, if I compare the files
> provided via the rpms from http://ftp.kolab.org/kolab/server/development/
> and my makefile (the differences seems to be updates in cvs compared to the
> rpms).
>
> The tarball that is the result of the above mentioned Makefile is located
> at: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/kolab/
> (kolab-webadmin-1.90-20040601.tar.gz). The tarball can be configured with
> ./configure (use --help) for the possible reconfigurations.  The usual
> commands like make, make DESTDIR=.... install and make distcheck work.
>
> Would it be possible to integrate the required files configure.ac and
> Makefile.am into the kolab-webadmin module?  I assume that the openpkg
> tools can work with them without problem (as other project use the
> autotools build method too) and enabling this build method gives others the
> possibility to easily relocate kolab executables and files.

-- 
Richard Bos
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