[Freeipmi-devel] Re: single tree

[Albert Chu]

Hey Ian,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought we were going to go with a shared
directory structure.

src/fish
src/libfreeipmi

> * ChangeLog is no longer under CVS.  Use cvs2cl.  Actually the 
> autogen.shscript does that for you.

Hmmm.  I dunno, something doesn't sit well with me about this.  Because
cvs2cl doesn't list function names like GNU wants:

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/changelogs/guile-changelogs_3.html

I can submit to peer pressure on both of these.  I know its mostly just
personal taste.

Al

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Albert Chu
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, May 5, 2004 2:19 pm
Subject: single tree

> 
> It is done!  From now on, check things out of /freeipmi.
> 
> Some changes of direction:
> 
> * ChangeLog is no longer under CVS.  Use cvs2cl.  Actually the 
> autogen.shscript does that for you.
> 
> * The "package name" is now freeipmi.  That means some header files 
> hadto be changed to use the subpackage names for file paths and such.
> 
> * The system.h mess is gone.  Mind your own #includes, and wrap 
> them in
> autoconf #ifdef if it makes sense (look what I did for string.h).
> 
> * configure options for locating include and library paths are gone.
> My point of view is that if you're smart enough to install stuff in
> nonstandard places, you also know how to tell configure about it.
> (hint: use ./configure CPPFLAGS=... LDFLAGS=...)
> 
> It builds without warnings and it even passes make distcheck 
> (if run as root).
> 
> Ian
>