[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[David Disseldorp]

On Tue, 21 May 2013 19:08:06 +1000
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> I'm not going to say that waf is perfect - it certainly isn't, but for
> Samba 4.1 and beyond, we should focus our energies on a single build
> system, and making it better, rather than continuing to build this large
> and complex code base with two independent build systems that we have to
> keep in sync.
> 
> The autoconf build system has supported us for a long time, but just as
> it is time that we retire SWAT, Samba 4.1 is the appropriate time to
> retire autoconf, and move to a single way to build a unified Samba
> project. 

+1 from me. Continuing to maintain both build systems is a heavy and
unnecessary burden.

Cheers, David