[Ltrace-devel] new tree feedback

[Zach Welch]

Here are some potential problems with the new tree:

* --with-libunwind should be --enable-libunwind, given its current
usage; however, --with would be appropriate if it allowed users to
specify the path where that library has been installed.

* The 'testsuite' directory is not being distributed.

* The test suite build system was not updated to use autotools.

* The test suite is not called during 'make check' and 'make distcheck'.

* The test suite is not covered by .gitignore.

* The autogen.sh script is being distributed, but it is meant to be used
only by developers that need to bootstrap the Git repository.

* configure.ac is missing AC_MAINTAINER_MODE which provides the useful
--enable-maintainer-mode option for developers who hack on the build system.

* The autotools patches came from the older branch, rather than the
newer branch that folded the fixes into the original patches.

* Some merge commits are empty. These would have been better avoided by
using 'git rebase' to stack all of the patches into a linear history.

On the positive side of things:

* x86, x86_64, and ARM pass their regression tests.

-- 
Zach Welch
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