Fw: [PROPOSAL] To retire autoconf for 4.1

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 10:25 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> On 2013-05-23 at 17:49 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 02:07 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > If there are regressions or concrete concerns, by all means,
> > > please bring them up and we can discuss them. 
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Jelmer 
> > 
> > Okay.  You've convinced me.  But I reserve the right to say "I told you
> > so" ;-)
> 
> As Jelmer pointed out, the fundamental discussion you are
> starting here has been (or should have been) taken place
> several years ago.
> 
> We have been building the AD-Part (samba4) of Samba with waf for more
> than three years now (iirc), the combined build followed soon.
> And before introducing waf, the samba4 part was also not built by
> a (pure) autoconf system for a considerable time.
> 
> What we are talking about now is the question whether to remove
> the autoconf build system from the source3 subdirectory,
> which is also built with the top level waf build, which is
> declared default build in in Samba 4.0.
> 
> So maybe you should have told us several years ago. :-)

Thanks Michael,

That describes where we are at very well.

Andrew Bartlett

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