[CRIU] [PATCH] make: protobuf -- Rework build procedure

[Pavel Emelyanov]

On 01/28/2015 11:10 PM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Christopher Covington
> <cov at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Something that would be nice to have that the current build system does not
>> handle is out-of-tree building. When I say out-of-tree building, I mean all
>> configure, build, run, etc. artifacts are placed in a directory outside of the
>> source tree.
> 
> +1
> 
> autotools handles that gracefully and running `make distcheck` does
> actually test that out-of-tree build works from a read-only source
> tree.
> 
> My offer to convert to autotools still stands, I'd be happy to
> contribute the new build system, set up Travis CI to test that the
> build system is working as expected (mainly ensuring `make distcheck`
> works) and helping answer questions about how to extend/maintain the
> system, just let me know if you'd be willing to take that patch and I
> can send a proof-of-concept of it.

So, I have nothing to object :) But since I'm a newbie in autotools, we'll
need a comprehensive "CRIU building" guide :)

Having said that -- looking forward to the patches!

>> Autotools generated configure scripts seem to take a while, which can be
>> annoying, but again, not enough for me to really do something about like
>> figuring out how to set up a site pre-configuration.
> 
> I agree that's an issue but on the normal develop/build/test cycle
> (i.e. if you're mainly doing changes to an existing .c file) configure
> doesn't need to re-run often, so for the incremental make case it
> shouldn't be a terrible slowdown.
> 
> Cheers,
> Filipe
> .
>