A DRAFT statement on our build systems for Samba 4.0

[simo]

On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:20 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: 
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 09:12:13AM -0400, simo wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 17:43 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to make it clear in our user's minds that we have moved
> > > past
> > > > having a 'file server' build and an 'AD build', and that for almost
> > > all
> > > > users, the top level build is the one they want.
> > 
> > Do we have a toplevel waf switch to build only the file server (+nmbd
> > +optionally winbindd) and not the whole AD DC stuff ?
> That's an interesting idea.
> 
> At the moment we have (more than) enough different ways of building
> Samba that we need to support. If we add a new one, can we maybe
> consider dropping another?

I do not see this as a new way of building, just building some parts
optionally.
Just like in the autoconf build we would build ADS support if you missed
or explicitly disabled building with ldap and/or krb5 libs.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>