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List:       axis-c-dev
Subject:    RE: configure.ac
From:       "Samisa Abeysinghe" <SAbeysinghe () virtusa ! com>
Date:       2004-06-14 2:12:04
Message-ID: 28B8E04BCFBEB74B9B19F765DE6598E9C01573 () enetslmaili ! enetsl ! virtusa ! com
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I think making the configure select the required parser and transport is
important with the configure script.
With the new design of Axis C++, user may want to build a particular
parser and not the other when given a choice.
It is no harm building make for all. However, in a real scenario, the
configure phase should validate that the required elements for the user
selection on the machine the build takes place. (Existence of headers
and libs). If we are to get there, we have to make sure that only the
required make files are generated. Else the user may have to make sure
that all the elements required by all options are available on the
machine, which is not feasible.
(E.g. If I want to use only the Xerces parser, I would not want to have
Expat on my systems. Additionally, I would like to see if configure
could pick up the headers and libs from my Xerces installation. So that
I do not have the trouble of manually copying them here and there)

Thanks,
Samisa...

-----Original Message-----
From: Sanjiva Weerawarana [mailto:sanjiva@opensource.lk] 
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 8:39 PM
To: Apache AXIS C Developers List
Subject: Re: configure.ac

Hi Damitha,

> In other cases they are there, so that beginning from that place
Makefiles
> can be generated seperately. For example you can goto samples/server
and
> generate configure file there to create all the Makefiles beginning
from
> that folder.

Is it absolutely necessary to have that level of flexibility in the
build system? That is, even if someone wants to build only the server
dir, is it harmful to require them to build the makefiles for all
the dirs, then cd to the server dir and make in there? Maybe there
are scenarios I don't know about ..

I'd prefer to if there was one configure file - that will make it
easier to port to multiple platforms and also simpler for a new
user/developer to understand.

Sanjiva.



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