Re: getting rid of mkproto.sh from Samba3 On Jun 4, 2007, at 6:24 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:21:25AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>> I'm still not convinced that any type of autogenerated
>> headers is a good thing.  I'd like to give James the chance
>> to experiment some.  Maybe we'll come to the conclusion that
>> the mechanisms used in the SAMBA_4_0 tree is appropriate,
>> but I would like come to that conclusion myself rather
>> than just accepting it on blind faith.
>
> Just FYI: I'm scared of the Samba 4 build system, so it
> would take a bit to persuade me. The Samba 3 Makefile is a
> huge mess, but you have a chance. In Samba 4, no way to
> figure out anything if something goes wrong.

The Samba3 build system is ugly but it's also simple, robust and easy  
to understand and change. It's also not as ugly as it once was :)

> And, I would *like* to keep our includes.h. It is a
> nightmare in Samba 4 to pick all necessary includes, and
> this will fill very quickly with obsolete includes if you
> change something.

Yep, "includes.h" is nice'n'easy and also plays well with precompiled  
headers. It would be nice to give some modules the option of including  
less that everything, however.

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James Peach | jpeach@samba.org

