[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Volker Lendecke]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:28:53PM +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:38:08AM +0200, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > 
> > > I agree that 4.1 would be a good opportunity to remove the
> > > support for the autoconf build, as I am personally confident
> > > enough with the waf build as the major build system.
> > > 
> > > But I think before taking the step, we should verify
> > > the current state of the config results - the bug #8969
> > > you mentioned has not been updated in a long time.
> > > 
> > > And maybe we can get some voices here of people using
> > > Samba file servers on various Unixes and of the distributors
> > > (of Linux, but also BSD flavours maybe).
> > 
> > Can we make it easier to compile just one binary, for
> > example smbtorture or so? I am right now messing with talloc
> > for example, and if I change talloc.h, it will recompile
> > almost everything before it even thinks about linking
> > smbstatus. Also, the startup time even on a beefy laptop is
> > several seconds before it even starts *something*. This
> > makes coding central components much more tedious than with
> > the autoconf build.
> > 
> > I know that from an ivory tower perspective changing
> > talloc.h requires rebuilding everything, but in my real
> > world I know what I'm doing and I don't need 100% precision.
> > What I need is quick turnaround with a possible fallback to
> > git clean -dxf.
> IIRC
> 
> ./buildtools/bin/waf build --targets=smbtorture

Thanks!

That does save linking of all non-involved libs and
binaries, but it will still compile everything first. At
least it did, when I last tried.

Volker

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