Automake Support for cyrus-imapd 2.5

Sun Apr 15 06:54:56 EDT 2012

On 2012-04-15 11:27, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012, at 01:31 AM, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> at git://demo.aegee.org:143/cyrus-imapd.git , branch dpa/automake I 
>> have
>> patched cyrus-imapd/master to support Automake .
>>
>> With the exception of perl and CUnit, I it works fine and permits
>> building in a directory, different from the source directory.  All
>> dependencies are moved to a single Makefile.am (except CUnit and 
>> Perl).
>>   The point with CUnit is, that I did not manage to get it running 
>> on my
>> system, so I left it as is.  The Makefile's generated from 
>> Makefile.PL
>> do not permit compiling perl files in a directory, different from 
>> the
>> source directory.
>
> I wonder if we can change from Makefile.PL to one of the more modern
> Perl build systems...
>

I reckon the Perl side of things is due a refactor anyways, no?

>> I do not have the purify-tool, so I was not able to compile the
>> imap/imap.pure, imap/imap.quant, imap/lmtpd.pure, imap/muptead.pure,
>> imtest/imtest.pure, notifyd/notifyd.pure, ptclient/ptdump.pure,
>> ptclient/ptexpire.pure, ptclient/ptloader.pure and
>> timsieved/timsieved.pure targets.  Those are not transferred to
>> Makefile.am .  I guess, the one who use those pure-things, can 
>> easily
>> extend Makefile.am to support them.
>
> We don't use them.  I wonder if anyone actually does :)
>

Let's put a stake in the ground and remove them.

>> "make dist" shall build .tar.bz2 including all files.  However I 
>> have
>> copied the dist-target from the old Makefile.in, removed all
>> Makefile.dist files.  The one who make tarballs/snapshots shall 
>> consider
>> if it is wiser to use the Automake system to make tarballs, or the
>> system used so far (with git).  So or so, the xversion.h file needs 
>> to
>> be generated by git.
>
> So long as it can be done easily, I dno't much care.
>

Can configure.ac -> ./configure please be made in charge of xversion.h?

I'll log a ticket with this request.

>> I hope you will like the result.  Let me know, if you experience any
>> (compilation) problems, after merging the changes.  I will respond 
>> promptly.
>>
>> By the way, when approximately will be v2.5 released?
>
> We don't know for sure.  I had a good chat with Greg in Melbourne 
> last
> week about what still needs to be done.  My plan is to build a set of
> bugs that need to be resolved, and make sure everything we're 
> thinking
> about is on that list!  Then we'll have a clearer idea.
>

Perhaps it's time we call a meeting to discuss 2.5.

Shall I announce tickets need to be created as per the #3669[1] model? 
Then if it isn't a ticket in Bugzilla it's not going to be planned. What 
do we think is a suitable timeframe for people to start creating 
tickets?

[1] https://bugzilla.cyrusimap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3669

> Regardless, I think we should merge your automake code now, so we 
> have
> a chance to test it for a while!

Please let me work on this for a few, so we have some more eyeballs 
rolling over this.

I propose we have Dilyan send in his SSH key for access to 
git.cyrusimap.org, and we set the distribution component to be assigned 
to him by default. Perhaps we rename the distribution component to build 
/ autoconf / automake / autofoo?

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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