Moving everything in src/ up a level

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 09:05:49 EST 2012


On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 02:19 -0500, ghudson at MIT.EDU wrote:
> Some time soon, Tom and I would like to cut the src directory out of
> the krb5 tree, moving everything there to the top level.  The primary
> motivator is making it reasonable to use an autoconf-controlled
> Makefile for the doc directory.
> 
> >From the perspective of the build system proper, this is a trivial
> change, but everything which automates or documents building the krb5
> tree, or applies packages to it, will need adjustment--in particular,
> OS packages.  I believe the changes should be simple makework, but
> please speak up if this would be burdensome enough that we should try
> to find another way.

can't you just move the autoconf files up and leave src/ where it is ?
I work on a few packages that do that without issues.

Simo.

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