[PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 12:00 +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> 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.

Thanks David,

I wonder if you would mind looking over the patch I've proposed (see my
other mail), to see if there is anything I've missed?  It passes a full
autobuild for me.

It is at
https://git.samba.org/abartlet/samba.git/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/remove-autoconf or I can mail you the patch (it's 800k, so I wasn't going to post it to the list). 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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