Re: RE: Compiling

Quoting Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>:

> Marko Kreen writes:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:50:04AM +0100, Peter Mount wrote:
> > > At 13:04 27/03/01 +0200, Marko Kreen wrote:
> > > >On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 07:54:15AM +1000, Mike Cannon-Brookes
> wrote:
> > > > > 3) currently we seem to have a build process that is 99% Ant and
> 1% make
> > > > > (for 4 substitutions). It seems unnecessarily complex to add
> make when we
> > > > > can remove it completely and not lose any functionality.
> > > >
> > > >Peter E, Peter M: how about build.xml.in, where the needed
> > > >substitutions are done in configure end-phase? I can prepare
> > > >patch if this is acceptable.
> > >
> > > For me that would be a good idea (remember there are three build.xml
> files)
> > > - it's just that I don't know enough about autoconf to do it myself
> :-)
> >
> > The .xml.in was not needed. I solved it using java.util.Properties
> > format file src/build.cfg.in where the parameters are specified.
>
> I think this is a good approach. Details can be worked out when we
> open up 7.2.

Agreed. Originally this was going to be a 7.2 feature anyhow, it just managed
to get in to 7.1 ;-)

Peter

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