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Use of the autotools would simplify CITI's patches for NFSv4.  Is it =

likely these autotools changes will be incorporated into the package =

such that we could take advantage of them?

> Hi, =

> =

> While working on the PTXdist build system we noticed that the nfs utils=
'
> Makefile system is significantly broken when it comes to cross
> compiling. After hacking the old code for some hours we had the
> impression that it was so seriously broken that we re-wrote the
> makefiles with the GNU autotools.
> =

> It doesn't make much sense to post a patch - this would probably be
> larger than the packet itself. As a base for further discussion, here's=

> our version: =

> =

> 	http://www.pengutronix.de/software/nfs-utils/
> =

> This version does the following things:
> =

> 	* remove all old Makefiles and replace them with proper
> 	  Makefile.am files
> 	* tested for cross compilation
> 	* tested for out-of-tree builds
> 	* currently the Debian/Red Hat support is missing
> 	  (might be something for somebody who knows what he =

> 	  is doing)
> =

> Any comments are welcome...



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