debian/rules questions and my plans for dual-build.

[Ondrej Sury]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 14:35 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > Instead, you want to keep WITH_IDLE, and make it select the *default* idle
> > > backend.  The manpages should be generated reflecting whatever default the
> > > user coose using --with-idle, as well.
> > 
> > Hmm, I have actually no idea how to achieve that, I probably really
> > should learn how to use autoconf/automake some time.
> 
> I can do the auto-fu stuff, just tell me which C defines do you need to do
> it cleanly.  It needs not be anything related to C-defining WITH_IDLE.

There is a slight problem however.  You need to select default backend
in imapoptions file, which is not autogenerated (and other files are
autogenerated from it imapopts.{h,c} and man page).

> > moment (have been up since 30 hours or so now), so I would rather not
> > mess it all up now that it is currently working.
> 
> There is no hurry for this, it is just that I have some experience with
> Cyrus upstream, and we'd certainly like to get this into 2.3 and if at all
> possible, 2.2 (and not just Debian-2.2).

I just wanted to stop useless (in my POV) work on building two packages
- one with idled and one without.

> > PS: Thanks Ondrej for the initial patch, I wouldn't have been able to
> > implement it that fast.
> 
> Yes, it was quite a nice work! I doubt I'd have done it that fast, as well.

/me blushes :-)))

Ondrej.
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Ondrej Sury <ondrej at sury.org>
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