[PATCH] Remove the autoconf build system

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 12:37 +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 19:38:55 +1000
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 19:01 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 13:36 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > > I've uploaded my patches to remove the autoconf build system to the
> > > > remove-autoconf branch at git://git.samba.org/abartlet.samba.org
> > > > 
> > > > https://git.samba.org/abartlet/samba.git/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/remove-autoconf
> > 
> ...
> > I would very much appreciate a technical review of this work, while we
> > finish discussing this important move.  
> > 
> > I would also very much like to see a concrete proposal as to any changes
> > needed to address Volker's workflow, rather than hold this patch and
> > important decision up while waiting for someone to do something.  
> > 
> > My view is that the time for major feature requests for our use of waf
> > was back when Tridge was implementing it for Samba, and that it is
> > unreasonable to hold this back in the absence of a genuine proposal
> > backed by actual working patches. 
> 
> Thanks for your persistence in getting things to this point.

Thank you for your appreciation.  I really wasn't sure we would get this
far, but I'm quite hopeful now, particularly given we made good progress
on the single-target builds. 

> I don't consider this a blocker for now, but I'd like to see configure
> time PIE (--enable-pie) support re-added for vendors requiring address
> space layout randomization.

I would be very glad to work with you on this.  What compiler and linker
flag to we need to add?

> Otherwise, the change set looks good:
> Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org> 
> 
> Cheers, David

Thanks!  I've updated the branch with your review tags.

Andrew Bartlett

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