proposal: merge waf build of s4 to master

[simo]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:33 +0100, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 01:29:42PM +0100, Dan Shearer wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:29:35PM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > > I think that would be outright perfect. I am not concerned
> > > at all about the developer's build machine having to provide
> > > python. It is the end-users box that I have problems with.
> > > If we ship a shell-based configure and Makefile in the final
> > > samba-latest.tar.gz on samba.org generated by waf, I think
> > > this would be the best of both worlds.
> > 
> > Isn't this going to be too fragile in the real world of horrible Unix?
> 
> ... unless the generated shell scripts are as comprehensive as what
> autotools creates! Eek!!! (and even then, as I say, it sometimes gets
> sticky.)

configure is configure is configure :)

Simo.

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