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The libgphoto2 camera access and control library.
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Integrate libgphoto2/libgphoto2_port/configure.ac into libgphoto2/configure.ac #708

Open ndim opened 3 years ago

ndim commented 3 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Running configure --help in a libgphoto2 source tree only shows the configure options for libgphoto2, but not for libgphoto2_port. That is confusing, and bad documentaiton.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to integrate libgphoto2/libgphoto2_port/configure.ac into libgphoto2/configure.ac so that a single configure --help run shows all configuration options. That also should accelerate the time needed to run autoreconf (by about a factor of 2) and configure for libgphoto2.

Describe alternatives you've considered Keep explaining libgphoto2_port options to libgphoto2 users, and keep waiting longer for autoreconf and configure to finish.

Additional context This is completely unrelated to whether the binaries built (libgphoto2.so and libgphoto2_port.so) are two separate ones or one integrated one.

This issue is so that I remember to do this, and so I can collect related comments here.

ndim commented 3 years ago

One interesting part will be whether the translations for libgphoto2 and libgphoto2_port can be kept separate as they are right now, even with a single common integrated configure.ac.

jtojnar commented 1 year ago

Alternative might be switching to something like Meson build system, which has native support for subprojects. That way you could maintain a clean separation of the libraries while able to pass options to libgphoto2_port.

ndim commented 7 months ago

JFTR, it is possible to keep the libgphoto2 po/ subdir separate from the libgphoto2_port po/ subdir even with a single configure.ac.