While this isn't a big deal personally, I will hazard a guess that
this change is unacceptable to nearly every package distro. I don't
know that we care, but I'd further guess that they'll either add the
functionality back in or (more likely) not include these versions of
nmh.
Debian currently builds --with-cyrus-sasl=/usr/include
which I think would correspond to just using --with-cyrus-sasl.
And most distros ought to be able to cope with setting CPPFLAGS
and LDFLAGS for the build.
Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking (and really, why would setting
CPPFLAGS/LDFLAGS be unacceptable for packaging distros? That's the way
nearly every other autoconf package works). The problem we were running
into was that if your Cyrus-SASL shared library was in a non-standard
location, it only worked right for Solaris; everything else it broke.
But I do think it would be nicer if changes to remove existing
functionality and break back compatibility of build scripts
were discussed first and committed second (this one will break
my personal build-from-cvs setup, for instance, because I use
the debian packaging on cvs sources). Also there doesn't seem
to be anything in ChangeLog about this...
Sigh. It was getting late, I had to go home ... I wanted to get
that stuff out there. I'll do the ChangeLog later.
And I don't think it will break the debian packaging, because now
the argument to --with-cyrus-sasl is silently ignored. So I think
it should still work fine. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll gladly
fix it. I could put a warning in there that arguments to --with-cyrus-sasl
are now ignored if that would be helpful.
(I'd forgotten how lousy cvs was until I came back to
nmh; I don't suppose we could get consensus on moving
to a VCS with actual support for atomic commits and
other modern conveniences? :-))
I kinda feel the same way. My vote is for git, but the REAL
question is: where to put it?
--Ken
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