Seamonkey progress

Alexander Sack asac at debian.org
Fri Oct 13 18:12:32 UTC 2006


On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > But now on to the "real work".
> > I do have a lot of questions and some suggestions about your build.
> > First of all: Alexander, yes as far as I found out, the update script
> > is still needed.
> > 
> > Now for my points;
> > first about the patches
> > why a complete configure file? -> patch it?
> > -> why again setting settings here you can sat with mozconfig?
> > lots of "changes" are identical to the original; why?
> > isn't patching configure.in a better/shorter way?
> > why not enable embedding tests in mozconfig? (same goes for myspell
> > and some other stuff I saw defined in configure)
> > why enable them thru a patch?
> 
> configure is patched instead of being updated with autoconf, so that we
> don't need a dependency on autoconf, and so that the configure file
> doesn't get changed in unknown broken ways by a new version of autoconf.
> 
> All the changes are actually done in configure.in, and the fact is we
> *add* argument flags that we actually use in mozconfig, such as
> enable-system-myspell.

In short ... running autoconf during build is considered bad practice.
> 
> 
> > what's this/what does it do: ac_add_options --with-gssapi=/usr (mozconfig)
> 
> it used to be used for kerberos authentication, it seems to be useless
> now...

afaik, why is it useless now? how does seamonkey deal with
SPNEGO/Kerberos authentication over HTTP now?


 - Alexander
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