s3 waf build status?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu Apr 14 03:57:32 MDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 09:59 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> On Thursday 14 April 2011 08:54:01 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
 
> > How close are we to having the s3 waf build complete?
> > 
> > The reason I ask is that for NAS and other embedded vendors, this
> > installed size difference would seem to be a really big advantage:
> > 
> > waf: 57MB
> > autoconf: 127MB
> > 
> > Even if it isn't complete for the s3 release (ie, fails on some
> > non-linux platforms), do you think we could allow vendors to enable it
> > if their platform is Linux?
> 
> There are still some problems like --with-logfilebase and --with-piddir aren't 
> working. So someone who understands this strange dynconfig code needs to fix 
> it. I wonder why we don't generate a simple header file with all the path set 
> instead of automagically transforming it to the compiler command line ...
If that header files changes (ie somebody changes a configure option)
we'd have to reconfigure all Samba files that include dynconfig.h. This
used to be all files in Samba.

Cheers,

Jelmer


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