Re: [PATCH] Operating system independence; Hurd Port.

[Niels Möller]

Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org> writes:

> Neal H Walfield wrote:

> > To compile (on GNU/Linux or GNU/Hurd), you need to do several things.
> > Patch parted-1.5.1-pre1.  Run:
> > 
> >   $ autconf && automake && automake libparted/device/gnu && automake
> >   libparted/device/linux
> 
> Why do we need the extra automake stuff?  I think the method
> you used to select the directory to use is broken... but
> perhaps automake is broken.  For example: we want to be able
> to use "make dist", even if we configured to use Hurd.

I don't know parted, but in general, I believe it makes things easier
to have optional files than to have optional directories. So unless
there are a *lot* of files under device/SYSTEM, it may help to use one
or a few files for each system in the top dir. Let configure set
DEVICE_SOURCES to an appropriate list of files, and use something like

  libpart_SOURCES= ... $(DEVICE_SOURCES)

  EXTRA_DIST= list of all the optional files

I think it best to use subdirectories with their own makefiles (and
possibly also their own configure.in) only for things that can be
thought of as independent modules, and that it might make sense to
distribute separately or share with other projects.

Regards,
/Niels