Removing M4 code from the build system

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

Jelmer Vernooij schrieb:
> Hi Metze, *,
> 
> Since the build system already depends on perl, what would you think
> about replacing all the current m4 code with perl code ? Basically
> that would give us:
> 
>  - No different config.{mk,m4} files (just one config.pm file)
>  - Ability to do our own caching of checks and ability to write
>    clearer tests
>  - More flexibility (e.g. you could import a pidl module to figure out
>    the dependencies of a .idl file)
>  - Less hassle when generating the build system and less dependencies.
>    The code path would be reduced from :
>    		M4 -> shell -> perl -> {makefile, config.h}
> 	to 
> 		perl -> {makefile,config.h}
> 
> Most of the current perl scripts wouldn't need changes (makefile.pl and
> smb_build.h.pl), it would mostly involve converting the current M4
> files to Perl.

Hi Jelmer,

the basic idea sounds good:-)

do you want to replace the whole configure.in also?

we should discuss that the next days on IRC...


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metze

Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org> www.samba.org