RC1 TODO list for modular tree

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:29:46PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 13:02 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > I wonder what has happened to imake. It's mentioned in
> > ModuleComponentList, but up to now util/imake is still empty. :-(
> > There are still many programs which use imake as build system, and I'm
> > afraid that many/most of them will never be converted to autotool
> > (because no longer maintained, but important nevertheless). I remember
> > last time I broke imake about 100 packages failed because of this and
> > SUSE is a small Linux distribution with only about 5000 packages.
> > 
> > In case imake won't be modularized. What would be the workaround to
> > build these imake build based programs. "Build imake by using the
> > 6.9 monolithic tree"? Hmm ...
> 
> For Ubuntu, I made a pretty simple autotooled package.  I was reasonably
> sure I committed it to CVS, but obviously not.  I can commit it tomorrow
> if needed.

Thanks. I would appreciate this.

> util/cf is more tricky, especially wrt configuration (what do you set
> BuildXawLibrary or whatever it is to, when you don't know which modules
> you're going to install?), but we could probably just install a stock
> config/cf and be done with it, prefix-changing aside.

stock config/cf should be ok. If changes are required distributors can
add an according host.def.

Best regards,
Stefan

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