[Opendnssec-develop] Building SoftHSM RC 1

[Jelte Jansen]

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Rick van Rein wrote:
> 
> Still, good building instructions are needed, as there are varieties of

definitely

> doing these things, and (I at least) am usually trying things until,
> somehow, magically, things start to build.  That's not good enough IM(H)O.
> 

yes, although jakob has done some tremendous work on this, there is still room
for improvement; the big 'do-all' makefile currently has a few tricks that make
it work for gnu systems and bsd systems, but not solaris, which i myself added.

And personally i don't like having to edit a file to make something build (yeah
i'm also looking at you, mozilla), but both these issues could be fixed by
making a 'big' configure as well.

And while we're at it, perhaps we could see whether it is possible to fix the
dependency issues; make build does a lot of unnecessary work at the moment,
although it may very well not be possible to get it completely right; recursive
make and interdependencies are not always good friends.

>> This is indeed a two-schools kind of thing; at least one of my colleagues at
>> Labs does not agree :)
> 
> Let's not start a war... adding ./configure to tarballs is a very
> good idea to resolve it pragmatically, I think.
> 

oh that's mostly my way of saying this is how I like to do it, but I'm not gonna
fight if people disagree. Or at least not hard :)

Jelte
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