[dnstop] Comments to the dnstop build process

Marc Haber mh+dnstop at zugschlus.de
Wed Oct 17 19:34:13 UTC 2012


On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:45:45AM -0600, Duane Wessels wrote:
> I was tinkering with dnstop today and noticed this old, unanswered
> message from you.  Sorry about that.

No problem, I had forgotten about it anyway ;-)

> >First, the release does not allow to execute autoreconf on the sources
> >since Makefile.am, configure.ac and configure.in seem to be missing in
> >the release. If that is not intentional, I would love to see that
> >fixed in a future release.
> 
> dnstop's use of configure & friends is very simple.  I ran 'autoscan'
> once which gave me configure.scan.  From that I generated configure.
> The package doesn't have configure.in or Makefile.am.
> 
> I'm including configure.scan as configure.ac in the tar file now.
> Will that be sufficient do you think?

I do not have enough clue with actual programming to judge that. If
you can give me a snapshot tarball of tell me where I can check out
the sources, and I can try.

> >Second, the Make rule for dnstop.o ignores some of the common compiler
> >flags variables.
> 
> oops.  That rule has been removed.

Thanks ;-)

Greetings
Marc

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