[openib-general] Problem with userspace tree structure

[Tom Duffy]

On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 10:51 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Michael> The problem is that the autotools files are generated, so
>     Michael> having them in svn is a problem - conflicts cant be
>     Michael> resolved properly - while not having them in svn is a
>     Michael> problem - you require all users to have autotools to
>     Michael> build.
> 
> Good point.  What I really meant is that every subdirectory of
> userspace/ should have it's own autotools setup that generates
> configure etc. with a run of "autogen.sh."  That makes it easy to make
> tarballs for users to build.  Developers or others who want to run
> from subversion need autotools (which are trivial to install on any
> distribution modern enough to run 2.6 kernels).

I have seen a lot of projects who have only autogen.sh in the source
control, but then have a tarball available that has a generated
configure script for the user to run.

-tduffy
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