[systemd-devel] [PATCH] add sprezzos as alias for debian in autoconf script

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 30.12.12 11:46, Paul Wise (pabs at debian.org) wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > In general we try to cut down on distro specific magic in the systemd
> > build tree. We have been slowly working on unifying things across
> > distros and already removed a couple of these checks.
> >
> > As long as we have the need for the TARGET_xxx stuff we'll keep it, but
> > it's not supposed to be specific per distro, but rather have definitions
> > for entire "families" of distros. For example, we removed TARGET_UBUNTU
> > (which existed at a time), since TARGET_DEBIAN already covered that
> > neatly.
> 
> It would be much better to get rid TARGET_* completely, split out what
> TARGET_* does into separate config options and push the configuration
> options into distro build systems.

Totally agree!

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.