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Requesting a "prebuilt" configure file #135

Closed TAAPArthur closed 2 years ago

TAAPArthur commented 2 years ago

From the original elinks

To successfully install ELinks all that is required is GNU make (version 3.78 or later) and a C compiler. If you want to install directly from GIT it is also required that automake and autoconf is installed on your system.

Which meant one could just ./configure && make and not require autotools. I would like to request that future releases provide a configure script.

rkd77 commented 2 years ago

I don't know how to do it. Preferred build method is using meson.

TAAPArthur commented 2 years ago

@rkd77 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you just need to run ./autogen.sh and use that to create say elinks-0.14.3.tar.xz. Another possibility is to just generate configure (and possibly whatever else is generated) and add it to the repo directly.

Although my ideal would be dropping all of autotools and just have a Makefile... but feel like that would be very polarizing.

My main reason not to use meson is so I can use any c99 compiler like tcc. There's also the issue with complexity/transparency of meson vs a regular Makefile.

I'll also add that the only (easy to find) documentation on how to install elinks mentions the mentions configure/make. May want to consider adding a some docs to install with meson if that's the preferred. And possibly clarify if there are options in one not present in the other

eli-schwartz commented 2 years ago

My main reason not to use meson is so I can use any c99 compiler like tcc.

https://sr.ht/~lattis/muon/ should help with this. If you try building a project with CC=/path/to/tcc muon setup builddir it will log:

LOG_W("unable to detect compiler type, falling back on posix compiler");

Personally, I'd still like to see that PR for meson to do the same thing, go through. :)

TAAPArthur commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, muon can't yet build this repro. And I believe there are other dependencies of this repro that don't mesh well with my setup so I'll just go back to the original.