[Typo3-dev] TYPO3core autotools integration and doxygen

[Michael Scharkow]

Sven Wilhelm wrote:

> One more word to autoconf as it seems to me that there are people who 
> not know when this is used.
> 
> In projects where autoconf is used the release manager checks out a copy 
> from cvs (or other rcs), runs autoconf,... (typically called due 
> something like autogen.sh or bootstrap.sh) and calls 'make dist' to 
> generate a tar.(gz|bz2) file which is the base for packaging.

I do know autoconf, but again, I see no purpose for it in TYPO3: You can 
just cvs co && tar czf release.tar.gz and that's basically it. I would 
never need a ./configure script, but maybe (and that depends on whether 
a simple shell script does as well) a small makefile that just checks 
whether the source is installed before installing a dummy package...

> During calling the ./configure in the packaging stuff several 
> placeholders are substituted.

What do you replace than?

Cheers,
Michael

PS: Perhaps Dimitry can enlighten us on how hard it is to automatically 
create rpms... Or stucki on debs...