[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Herb Lewis]

On 05/22/2013 10:04 AM, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi C.J.,
>
>> Speaking as a build engineer responsible for compiling samba to run on
>> hundreds of systems, I would personally prefer not to phase autotools
>> out.  Many distributions assume that there is an autoreconf
>> -i ; ./configure ; make ; make install option available in software they
>> build for their platforms, and build engineers know the system well
>> enough to produce binaries.  Forcing build engineers to learn something
>> new will delay and in some cases remove support entirely for samba on
>> many platforms.
> What in './configure && make && make install' (using waf) is more
> complicated
> than './autogen.sh && ./configure && make && make install' (using autoconf)?
>
> metze
>
what if your build system doesn't have waf and you have no control
on getting it installed?