[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Proposal: dirlist.d/ directory support
From: |
Robert Schiele |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal: dirlist.d/ directory support |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:04:48 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.9i |
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 08:20:41PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Robert, Christoph, all,
>
> * Robert Schiele wrote on Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:24:48PM CEST:
> >
> > The following patch does provide the feature as described above and I
> > would like to see it in future automake releases. Comments,
> > suggestions, questions, or rants are always welcome.
>
> Automake-1.9b has support for wildcards in dirlist entries. So, this:
> echo "$aclocaldir/dirlist.d/*" >> $aclocaldir/dirlist
>
> and then having packages add a subdirectory below $aclocaldir/dirlist.d
> would be an alternative approach. That said, I think not requiring
> third-party packages' aclocal file directories be below $aclocaldir is
> probably a good idea from a distributor's POV.
Exactly. Let's take GNOME in /opt/gnome/ as an example. If you have that you
might want to have GNOME m4 files in /opt/gnome/share/aclocal/ but you may
want to make some GNOME package also provide
/usr/share/aclocal/dirlist.d/gnome that includes only the line
"/opt/gnome/share/aclocal/". Sure you could also do this with some symbolic
links but actually in my opinion the solution I provided is more clean since
it does not invent a new way of doing something but instead provides a
straight-forward extension of an existing one.
> If Alexandre likes it, then what's missing from the patch before it
> can be applied is a ChangeLog entry, an addition to the "For example"
> part in the documentation right after your patch hunk would be nice, a
> testsuite addition to make sure the feature works as intended, (note
> that I'm not implying that you have to do this work), and a copyright
I can provide all that stuff, given that someone tells me about the rules (if
there are any) on how to name the testcases and/or whether it is ok to extend
the existing one for the dirlist feature or whether a completely new one is
prefered.
> assignment of the author of the patch.
Ok, since I am the author, one should just tell me what exactly is needed.
Robert
--
Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214
Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:address@hidden
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur."
pgpXE0xmzxpm4.pgp
Description: PGP signature
Re: Proposal: dirlist.d/ directory support, Ben Pfaff, 2006/08/23