[PATCH 0/2] Compilation warning fixes

[Tomasz Wasilczyk]

On 05/13/2014 05:11 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Tomasz Wasilczyk <twasilczyk at pidgin.im> wrote:
>> 12 maj 2014 08:35 "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>
>> napisał(a):
>>> I've no idea why people are interested in
>>> libpurple-mini, but it seems there's quite a few.
>>
>> Isn't it enough to compile official Pidgin with congifure switches that
>> disables Pidgin and Finch? I'm just curious.
>
> That might work in Linux, but I'm not so sure it would be so easy to
> compile for Windows.

With autotools - it is as trivial as in Linux.

> Moreover, I haven't actually tried it, but I bet my Makefile is at
> least an order of magnitude faster.

For Linux (and cross-compilation for win32 too), most of build time is 
compilation, which is not affected by Makefiles.

>>> BTW. I saw in the archives some talk to use autotools for building on
>>> Windows which seems the absolute worst thing to do.
>>
>> Some Pidgin devs also state that. But I still have no idea *why* is it the
>> worst thing to do. If we provide a repository with mingw dependencies it
>> will be repeatable. The only disadvantage I see is a longer build time on
>> Cygwin. But Cygwin is already a disaster.
>
> Have actually tried to run autotools in Windows? There's no perl,
> there's no m4. I wouldn't dream of doing that, particularly when pure
> make works just fine.

The initial set of patches for win32-autotools build came from a person 
who didn't even tried to compile on linux. Personally, I'm not going to 
run any more builds on Windows, since cross-compilation finally works 
for 3.0.0 branch.

> I've worked all my professional life
> on embedded systems, and I can assure you; autotools are the worst for
> cross-compiling.

I still don't know *why*. Yes, I had certain problems with autotools for 
win32, but I've managed to fix those. I could also believe, that 
autotools were a no-go for mingw-based cross compilation 10 years ago.

I *really* have no idea why autotools is the worst. I don't know any 
issue about it.

>> I looked at the one you mentioned and I'm not sure if it handles
>> every quirk of every unix we build for.
>
> That's the whole reason you use GLib.

GLib won't handle everything. For example optional external libs and 
dependencies between them (gtk2/3 vs webkitgtk vs gst0.10/1.0). Or (I'm 
not sure about all of these) 
socklen_t/sockaddr.sa_len/fileno/inet_aton/etc routines, that may be 
missing on some systems.


Please note, that I'm not trying to insist (yet ;)) on dropping the 
legacy win32 build. I'm trying to figure out the real issues behind the 
unified buildsystem based on autotools.

Tomek

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