Re: [Condor-devel] What does Condor _really_ depend on?

[Derek Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Erik Paulson wrote:

> Can I ask why you want to set WANT_QUILL to be NO?

Because he's trying to clean up our insane build system and the  
externals, and move us closer to the autoconf-ian dreams.  I.e.  
allowing something like:

./configure --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql --with-krb5=/usr/lib

> I don't think it's really clear how it's supposed to work. I like  
> the idea of
> just using HAVE_EXT_<foo>, combined with a real --with-foo and -- 
> without-foo
> from autoconf, and getting rid of the HAVE && WANT tests. I think  
> turning
> off externals is better than turning off "features."

Right.  I've been trying to move us towards HAVE_EXT_<foo>.  Not  
everyone plays along with that.  Vast areas of the build system are  
using other, older systems for the same basic thing.  It's no  
surprise that when people sit down to add something new, they look  
around, are confused at the diversity of existing practice, shoot in  
the dark, and miss.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/developers/GENERIC/HOWTO-add- 
externals.html

Unfortunately, that isn't as clear about this as it should be,  
probably because I originally wrote it before Imake was including  
config.h, which was when I really started to get clear in my own head  
that we should formalize on HAVE_EXT_<foo>.

-Derek