Re: Sidebar re autoconf

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl@regent.push.net)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:25:26 +0000 (GMT)

Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 1998 12:25:26 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@regent.push.net>
To:	Multiple recipients of list <samba-technical@samba.anu.edu.au>, Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Sidebar re autoconf
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980414171956.9997A-100000@geryon.progsoc.uts.edu.au>

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Anand Kumria wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>
> > I've attached an example of the (minor!) change I'd propose for the
> > porting part of the makefile...
> >
> > I do ned to re-look at autoconf and friends, to see what they can
> > detect and what they call it...
>
> If you can wait until I get home tonight I will either post my current
> diffs (against the main branch) or a URL to the list [which would people
> prefer?].

you'll probably find that the diff is too big to be posted to the list, so
a URL would be the only option.

> We can probably work together on getting good autoconf support
> into SAMBA quickly.

yeah!

> It is pretty complete -- well it works on my Linux libc5 system. I guess I
> should try it out on some architectures to see where it falls over.

cross-post the location of the URL to samba, samba-technical and
samba-ntdom and comp.protocols.smb asking people to try it out.

> As Andrew says I couldn't work out which branch to do changes to, then I
> noticed that most of BRANCH_NTDOM disappeared into the mainline anyway, so
> that is what I continued to work on.

whew.

luke