arla Debian package

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett at iname.com> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 15:55:34 -0400 (+0000), Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> [snip]
> > * Copy the userland config.h into the subtree from which you're
> >   generating the xfs-source package; call the copy user-config.h.
> > 
> > * Begin xfs-source's acconfig.h (or config.h.in if you're not using
> >   autoheader) with
> > 
> >         #include "user-config.h"
> 
> Yep - that's now what I'm doing (ish).  Nothing so neat as what you
> suggested though.  What I'm doing is using a small configure.in, running
> autoconf over it and putting the resulting configure script into the
> package.  This has the small advantage that the end user doesn't need
> autoconf or any of the cf/ directory.

Oh, you should certainly distribute the configure script; that's
standard practice.  I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu at mit.edu> (finger amu at monk.mit.edu)