Re: More on CVS layout

[Tom Howard]

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Hi Peter,

> My suggestion, if nothing better comes up, is to put the m4
> files  _flat_ into a single directory, for example:
> 
>   m4src/ax_foo.m4
>         ax_other_foo.m4
>         ax_java_bar_foo.m4
>         ...
> 
> This way, there is no chance we'll ever have to move a file
> to stay consistent. Furthermore, you can use the checked-out
> repository with aclocal(1) without any modifications or
> installation process. In the release archive, it is this way
> already.
> 
> What other ideas are there? Anyone?

Flat makes most sense to me as well, but it would require a migration
step, where everything is moved from their directories.  Can we put it
down as a to-do item?  Leaving it as it allows me to create a build
system very quickly.  Until the CVSROOT/modules is updated, you can test
it yourself by running

cvs co ac-archive
cvs co ac-archive-build
cd ac-archive-build
ln -s ../ac-archive/legacy m4-src
ln -s ../ac-archive/COPYING .
ln -s ../ac-archive/README .
./boostrap
./configure
make
make install

Ideally the make step will build the docs, but I'll work on that as soon
as the licence changes are done.

Also having it flat doesn't make a huge diff, as you still need to tell
aclocal where to find that flat dir (as opposed to telling where to find
N directories).  Currently, make install will keep the dir structure,
but making it flat is a one liner (remove nobase_) in the Makefile.am

Cheers,

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Tom Howard

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