In preparation of Cyrus IMAP 2.5: autoconf and automake

[Bron Gondwana]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:15:04AM +0200, Дилян Палаузов wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> >To this end, we encourage you to clone the GIT repository master branch
> >and attempt a build, or, alternatively, download the following snapshot
> >release:
> >
> >http://git.cyrusimap.org/cyrus-imapd/snapshot/cyrus-imapd-2.5-snapshot-autoconf-and-automake.tar.gz
> >
> >The canonical build process we think applies, generally speaking, is:
> >
> >$ autoreconf -v
> 
> The idea at the end is to create the tarballs with "make dist",
> which includes Makefile.in, config.h.in and configure, so that
> "autoreconf" does not have to be run by the ones downloading the
> tarball (and it does not matter, if git manages those files).
> 
> Apart from including the hand-written files, and the files listed by
> automake --help, some more generated files are going to be included
> by "make dist", but I am not sure yet which files exactly.

I have a problem with this shit:

irect sieve/tests/action/testm/uatest-discard sieve/tests/action/testm/uatest-stop2 sieve/tests/action/testm/uatest-stop sieve/tests/action/serverm sieve/tests/action/serverm/uamail-stop2 sieve/tests/action/serverm/uamail-redirect sieve/tests/action/serverm/uamail-stop sieve/tests/action/serverm/uamail-keep sieve/tests/action/serverm/uamail-discard sieve/tests/action/uberActionScript.key sieve/tests/action/uberActionScript.s sieve/tests/test sieve/tests/test/uberTestScript.key sieve/tests/test/testm sieve/tests/test/testm/utest-header sieve/tests/test/testm/utest-address sieve/tests/test/serverm sieve/tests/test/serverm/utmail-address sieve/tests/test/serverm/utmail-header sieve/tests/test/uberTestScript.s sieve/tests/actionExtensions sieve/tests/actionExtensions/uberExtensionActionScript.s sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-flag4 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-flag2 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-fileinto sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-denotify sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-vacation sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-reject sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-mark sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-denotify2 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-flag5 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-notify2 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-notify sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-flag1 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-flag3 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/testm/ueatest-unmark sieve/tests/actionExtensions/uberExtensionActionScript.key sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-flag4 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-denotify sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-mark sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-denotify2 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-flag2 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-unmark sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-reject sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-flag3 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-fileinto sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-flag1 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-notify sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-flag5 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-notify2 sieve/tests/actionExtensions/serverm/ueamail-vacation \
>-------timsieved/TODO

... in the EXTRA_DIST part of Makefile.am

That's so unmaintainable it's not funny.

What's the plan here?