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Address parsing and normalisation through libpostal
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Write a proper autoconf script #3

Closed Ironholds closed 8 years ago

Ironholds commented 8 years ago

The last blocker until release - a script that actually checks for the presence of libpostal and stops if it can't be found.

Ironholds commented 8 years ago

I actually succeeded. Huh!

albarrentine commented 8 years ago

Hm, with autoconf (not an expert but it's what I use for libpostal) usually one would just check in configure.ac, then have to run autoreconf to generate the configure script. If it's just checking for an installed header, autoconf might be overkill.

Just pushed a branch called simple-configure which uses the Anticonf script from Jeroen Ooms (seen in many R packages with bindings to installed C libs). Can use or not, as you prefer.

Ironholds commented 8 years ago

Oh nice! Yeah, merge that into master, that's awesome!

Ironholds commented 8 years ago

I've decided Jeroen is the only human being who knows how autoconf works on the entire planet. That shit is some lovecraftian nightmare best written by turning your keyboard keyside-down and bashing it against the table with a text processor open.

albarrentine commented 8 years ago

Done.

And agreed. For C libs autotools remains a necessary evil for getting into OS package managers, but in most higher level languages there's already some cross-platform fu built in, so a pkg-config one-liner is usually all that's needed.