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From: Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org>
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 00:28:02 +0000
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Have you wholesale replaced the existing build system?

If you have, it's going to be a tad more complex than knocking up a few =
makefiles to compile C. There's lots of very complex stuff our build =
system copes with at the moment. I'm not convinced it can be replaced by =
an Erlang build system and a few shell scripts. We've had chats about =
improving the build system before, and I think the consensus is that we =
wrap an Erlang build system WITHIN the Autotools system.

What are you thoughts?

On 4 Nov 2010, at 00:04, Tristan Sloughter wrote:

> If anyone by chance has or can easily create some simplistic make =
files or
> something for compiling the C code that would be AWESOME. I haven't =
had time
> to dig around what is needed to compile the different pieces but its =
the
> last major piece to complete.
>=20
> Tristan
>=20
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Tristan Sloughter <
> tristan.sloughter@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
>> Hi everyone, I have a github fork from apache/couchdb
>> https://github.com/tsloughter/couchdb that I modified to be more OTP
>> compliant and now builds with sinan (from http://erlware.org). There
>> wasn't much that I've done so far. I moved the CouchDB app under
>> lib/couchdb. I removed the other apps from the source tree, they can =
easily
>> be installed with faxien (from http://erlware.org) and versions can =
be
>> declared if necessary. I changed the _app.erl file to not start =
applications
>> and added those applications instead to the applications list in the =
.app
>> file. They will be started properly by the release's boot script.
>>=20
>> I moved all non-Erlang stuff to lib/couchdb/priv.
>>=20
>> I still have a number of things to do that I hope to get to tonight. =
First,
>> fix up the two scripts under bin/. Fix the configuration file =
locations
>> (some stuff is hardcoded for my environment). Add a hook to sinan to =
compile
>> the icu driver -- right now I just copied the library over from a =
build of
>> CouchDB I did separately.
>>=20
>> There are probably a few other things.. But I was able to do an
>> application:start(couchdb) last night and see it working :).
>>=20
>> There were a few things I thought of changing within the code as I =
dug
>> around but those are a separate issue that I'll bring up in =
discussion after
>> all this is complete.
>>=20
>> Tristan
>>=20