On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 10:19 +0100, Rainer Jung wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed, that we could standardize a bit more on the tool chain used > for releasing mod_jk. > > 1) Building configure > > During the release process, the configure script gets build, which uses > autoconf, automake, m4 and libtool. > > In the last year or so I used > > autoconf: 2.60 > automake: 1.9.6 > m4: 1.4.4 > libtool: 1.5.22 > > The latest releases are: > > autoconf: 2.61 > automake: 1.10 > m4: 1.4.8 > libtool: 1.5.22
I have used: autoconf: 2.59 automake: 1.9.6 m4: 1.4.5 libtool: 1.5.22 > > I will update my toolchain to the versions listed above. I think it's > not really necessary to always use the latest version, but we should try > to not fall too much behind them. Yes and check in the script that the version is that one you expect so the whole stuff is more reproducible. > > 2) Extracting plain text from html > > For extracting the text files CHANGES and NEWS from the docs, we also > use one of the tools w3m, links or elinks, whichever is found on the > build machine. The resulting formats seem to differ, so I would prefer > to stabilize on one of them. w3m and elinks seem to be not very active > (w3m no releases at all, elinks once a year). There is a follow-up > project on links http://links.twibright.com. It is under GPL, but for > simply running it, that's OK. I used version 2.1pre22, the latest one is > 2.1pre26 (November 2006). > > Jean-Frederic: which of the three tools did you use? +++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ links --version ELinks 0.11.1 (built on Nov 20 2006 19:43:12) Features: Standard, IPv6, gzip, bzip2, Periodic Saving, Timer, Cascading Style Sheets, Protocol (File, FTP, HTTP, URI rewrite, User protocols), SSL (OpenSSL), MIME (Option system, Mailcap, Mimetypes files), LED indicators, Bookmarks, Cookies, Form History, Global History, Goto URL History, Search History +++ Also there choosing one tool and one version looks a good idea and add the URL to sources of the tools in the documentation... Cheers Jean-frederic > The output format > differs a little and your tool produced automatic reference lists, which > could be useful but in our case produced non-usable references to the > file system on the build machine at the end of the NEWS file. > > Regards, > > Rainer > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
