[apparmor] [PATCH] towards a common build infrastructure

[John Johansen]

On 05/05/2012 02:38 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> I'd like to start trying to move to a common autoconf infrastructure where
> the build elements are selected at configure time, etc. This will let us
> get rid of the unusual common/Make.rules logic, provide cleaner common
> build targets, potential for easier parallelization of the build, etc.
> 
> This is the first step, which moves the configure.ac from
> libraries/libapparmor down into the top level directory. Currently
> only libraries/libapparmor is automake-ified, but with the autoconf
> infrastructure moved, we can start adding directories one at a time
> until all the by-hand Makefiles have been replaced.
> 
> To help with with transition, I've added some by-hand Makefiles to
> needed subdirectories so that the top-level "make", "make check", and
> "make clean"s will get passed all the way down.
> 

Funny I had considered getting rid of autoconf completely for the unification.

At the moment lets just hold off on this, it isn't going to go into 2.8 so it
doesn't hurt waiting a little bit and we can discuss this next week.

john