[PATCH] Remove the autoconf build system

[Andreas Schneider]

On Monday 27 May 2013 21:26:16 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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?

I think Alexander worked on this, Alexander can you please comment?


	-- andreas


See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=953201

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