proposal: merge waf build of s4 to master

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Apr 6 11:14:27 MDT 2010


On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:24:30PM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago we discussed (on #samba-technical), if it would be
> possible for waf to dump its configure knowledge to a plain shell based
> configure script, which would be able to generate single Makefile.
> 
> I assume waf has enough knowledge to to do something like that.
> Then we could setup automated tests to make sure this build variant
> keeps working.

This seems like a wonderful idea to me. That way we keep the
simple system for platforms without a default python, yet
we get all the benefits of a more modern build system.

Jeremy.


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