[Monotone-devel] library build

[Markus Wanner]

Hi,

I've taken out the library-build branch again today and played around a 
bit. It took me several approaches and fiddling with auto* just to get 
it to compile again.

I still feel uncomfortable maintaining a special wrapper and multiple 
3rd party libraries inside monotone with the additional option to use a 
system provided library.

It seems obvious to me that we don't have the manpower to maintain such 
a multi-purpose build harness, so I'm proposing to go the easier way and 
make monotone dependent on 3rd party libraries, without providing them 
(and a kitchen-sink build harness).

Instead we should IMO simply rip out the still-bundled stuff (pcre, 
sqlite, idna, botan) and adjust the Makefile cruft to build against 
system provided libraries - as the vast majority of other software does. 
Or how often did you encounter a 'configure' which doesn't configure 
anything but leaves that task for 'make', making you fiddle with aclocal 
in subdirectories if things don't work out as planned?

Comments?

Regards

Markus Wanner