[SSSD] [PATCH] Include m4 directories in tarball

Simo Sorce ssorce at redhat.com
Tue Sep 15 14:18:22 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 09:51 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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> On 09/15/2009 09:45 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 09:16 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> >> Due to differences in autotools, building RPMS on RHEL5 requires the
> >> m4
> >> directories to be included in the tarball.
> > 
> > Is there any way to have symlinks between these directories, we have 5
> > or more copies of the same files (AFAIK) there and each directory is
> > something in the range of 700k (IIRC). That's *a lot* to put in the
> > tarball.
> > 
> > Simo.
> > 
> 
> Please open a bug. I'll look into ways to mitigate this problem.
> 
> The problem is that we have all of our subdirectories designed as
> independent autoconf projects. I may look into converging the
> libreplace, server and sss_client configure scripts (and by extension,
> the m4 directories) into one configure project, but the common directory
> needs to retain its individuality since we intend to split out those
> libraries at some point.

Can we care about their own autoconf individuality when the time to
split the off comes ?
Right now it seem just a waste of space (and time to set up the tree
when you do autoreconf).

Simo.

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