Sidebar re autoconf

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> > I've attached an example of the (minor!) change I'd propose for the
> > porting part of the makefile...
> > 
> > I do ned to re-look at autoconf and friends, to see what they can
> > detect and what they call it...
> 
> If you can wait until I get home tonight I will either post my current
> diffs (against the main branch) or a URL to the list [which would people
> prefer?].

you'll probably find that the diff is too big to be posted to the list, so
a URL would be the only option.

> We can probably work together on getting good autoconf support
> into SAMBA quickly.

yeah!

> It is pretty complete -- well it works on my Linux libc5 system. I guess I
> should try it out on some architectures to see where it falls over.

cross-post the location of the URL to samba, samba-technical and
samba-ntdom and comp.protocols.smb asking people to try it out.
 
> As Andrew says I couldn't work out which branch to do changes to, then I
> noticed that most of BRANCH_NTDOM disappeared into the mainline anyway, so
> that is what I continued to work on.

whew.

luke