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Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-5_2: rpm/ Makefile.am

From: Per Øyvind Karlsen <pkarlsen@rpm5.org>
Date: Thu 14 May 2009 - 17:53:59 CEST
Message-ID: <534660c60905140853v3491b28enc82142cdf852ac0b@mail.gmail.com>
2009/5/14 Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>

> Thanks for doing.
>
> But somehow there has to be a better way to
> include files (and sub-trees) in EXTRA_DIST without
> explicitly enumerating each and every file.
>
> E.g. liveconnect is unused by rpmjs, and is highly unlikely
> to ever be used. Meanwhile the cost of customizing
> imported subtrees is non-trivial, its adds "stuff"
> that needs to be vetted each and every import,
> and leads to Bloat! complaints for tar-balls.
>
> I haven't a clue what the better answer is.
>
> But the explicit enumeration is likely to break
> again and again and again. I know my habits well ;-)

Yeah, this was quite a bit annoying to include and felt quite
& fragile..

btw. I noticed rpm building rpmkey & rpmxar by default now for
some reason? (didn't happen with HEAD)
How does one disable the build of these if headers missing?
I figure that just placing it's code within #ifdefs gets a bit dirty
with the expected executable binaries to produce and all..
It's not like it's a big problem for me to make sure to have
what provides keyutils.h, xar.h etc. installed, I might as well
do that anyways, but I figure that regular users might not
be all that happy about it. ;)

--
Regards,
Per Øyvind
Received on Thu May 14 17:54:20 2009
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