From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Roland Winkler" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: BBDB v3 approaching release Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 23:23:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20901.8264.9162.330645@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <20899.5836.285028.24953@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <87obbvwgw6.fsf@sbs.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1369776218 19936 80.91.229.3 (28 May 2013 21:23:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 21:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christian Egli Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 28 23:23:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UhRMk-0002NZ-Iw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 23:23:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35850 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhRMk-0006Nr-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 17:23:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhRMf-0006Nl-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 17:23:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhRMb-0001tl-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 17:23:29 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:40031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhRMb-0001td-8o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 May 2013 17:23:25 -0400 Original-Received: from p4fcbfa57.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([79.203.250.87]:52284 helo=regnitz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UhRMZ-0001NU-V7; Tue, 28 May 2013 17:23:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87obbvwgw6.fsf@sbs.ch> X-Mailer: VM 8.2 trial under 24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:159875 Archived-At: On Tue May 28 2013 Christian Egli wrote: > > - The current configure scripts and makefiles pretty much follow the > > old lines of BBDB v2. I'd be glad if someone familiar with the GNU > > conventions for such files could look over these files so that > > they work reliably / as expected on different platforms. > > I know my way around autotools and have some understanding of the GNU > conventions. I looked at configure.ac and Makefile.in. I could help. > What exactly is it that you want to do? Just port the build system to > more modern and standard autotools usage? Hi Christian Thanks! - One concern is about the options of the ./configure script related to the installation of BBDB. Say, currently the options --prefix and --datadir don't do anything meaningful. But I don't know what would be meaningful here. I am really a novice with that stuff. So possibly there are more problems hidden that I have not yet realized. Roland