Hints required on how to build examples/VFS with waf

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2014-03-30 at 16:48 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Ralph Böhme <rb at sernet.de> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 09:24:10AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >> I am trying to figure out how to build the stuff in examples/VFS with
> >> waf but it keeps escaping me.
> >>
> >> Can anyone provide some hints?
> >
> > $ grep -B 3 vfs_shadow_copy_test source3/wscript
> >     if Options.options.developer:
> >         default_static_modules.extend(TO_LIST('charset_weird'))
> >         default_shared_modules.extend(TO_LIST('perfcount_test'))
> >         default_shared_modules.extend(TO_LIST('vfs_skel_opaque vfs_skel_transparent vfs_shadow_copy_test'))
> >
> > So `./configure --enable-developer ...` should do the trick.
> 
> Thank you for that ... now I can see that the various build scripts
> are included from source3/wscript_build where it has statements like
> bld.RECURSE(../examples/VFS) and so on.
> 
> The question then is, for those people who have their own VFS modules
> and do not want to place them in the Samba source tree, how do they
> build with waf? How to the gain access to all the configuration stuff
> and so forth.

I think you would have to patch them or at least the reference to them
in a matching Samba source tree.

Andrew Bartlett

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