Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/libexec/httpd
To: None <source-changes@netbsd.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/17/2007 15:47:34
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:27:12AM +0000, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> Programs with BSD makefiles yes, autoconffed programs no.  I've just
> spent a couple of weeks buried in this.  The problem with autoconffed
> programs is usually that they depend on a rats' nest of other autoconffed
> programs and eventually you hit either something that uses AC_TRY_RUN
> or a library that requires libtool.  I have not yet succeed in battering
> libtool into working correctly with any kind of cross toolchain, though
> generally in these cases I have built NetBSD src/dist style reachacross
> Makefiles and generated the required config.h for each of my targets
> by hand, so I have not tried very hard to make libtool work right.

Hands up who followed the Sommer of Code this year.

Joerg