Re: [vhffs] autotools patch

[Sébastien Le Ray <beuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:02:51 +0200,
Sébastien Le Ray <beuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Le Tue, 03 Apr 2007 21:53:31 +0200,
> Alexandre Ghisoli <alexandre.ghisoli@xxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
> > Hi there, 
> > 
> > Sorry for the long delay, was very busy and it took me some times to
> > convert the install process to autoconf / automake.
> > 
> > It fully support :
> > DESTDIR=/tmp/package make install 
> > for packages maintainers.
> > 
> > And for making tarballs to distribute :
> > make dist
> > 
> > will make a .tgz in the working directory that will contain all
> > files do distribute.
> > 
> > Supported configure options are :
> > 
> >   --with-conf-path=path   Complete path for configuration files
> >                           (/etc/vhffs)
> >   --with-shell-path=path  Complete path for tux shell (/bin)
> >   --with-tools-path=path  Complete path for tools (executables)
> >                           (/usr/local/bin)
> >   --with-doc-path=path    Complete path for documentation files
> >                           (/usr/share/doc/vhffs)
> >   --with-api-path=path    Complete path for perl modules (API)
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/api/Vhffs)
> >   --with-web-path=path    Complete path for web interface (panel)
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/panel)
> >   --with-template-path=path
> >                           Complete path for web templates (panel)
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/templates)
> >   --with-backend-path=path
> >                           Complete path for web backend
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/backend)
> >   --with-robot-path=path  Complete path for robots file
> > (/usr/lib/vhffs/bots)
> >   --with-jabber-path=path Complete path for jabber pipe
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/jabber)
> >   --with-listengine-path=path
> >                           Complete path for jabber pipe
> >                           (/usr/lib/vhffs/listengine)
> >   --with-listengine-web-path=path
> >                           Complete path for listengine web file
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/listengine)
> >   --with-mail-path=path   Complete path for email files
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/mails)
> >   --with-doc-path=path    Complete path for documentation files
> >                           (/usr/share/vhffs/mails)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The attached patch is against trunk version 538.
> > 
> > Please give me your feedback.
> > 
> > Before contributing more, I need some clarifications about
> > license .. is it GPL ? Could you explain the future of this
> > project ?
> > 
> > Also, is there any coding standard to apply ? (i.e. space,
> > indentation, tabs, vars name, position of { and }, ...)
> > 
> > Also a roadmap would be nice ;)
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > --Alexandre
> 
> 
> Hi
> I started to look at the patch, here are some request/feelings
>   - could you add --with-min-uid --with-min-gid switches (they'll set
> sequences values for vhffs_users/groups_u/gid_seq in
> vhffs-compat/4.0.sql and vhffs-backend/src/pgsql/initdb.sql)
>   - do PREFIX and EPREFIX have a real influence ?
>   - api-path *must* end with Vhffs, could you enforce this (maybe it's
> already done...)
>   - configure dies with following error : 
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating vhffs-test-dependencies
> config.status: creating vhffs-backend/conf/vhffs.conf
> config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.in
> 
> Regards
> Sebastien

My problem seems to be related to the fact that there is no NEWS file
at sources' root dir. Can you confirm this ?

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