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A few train of thoughts about the build procedure mess

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Ralf S. Engelschall 1999-01-02 16:28:51 +00:00
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OPEN ISSUES
o The apps/ dir should be cleaned up.
Ralf proposes the following cleanup:
1. We rename the ssleay program to openssl.
=> This way it's consistent with out project and
with the already started openssl(1) manpage, etc.
2. We no longer create such a lot of <command> links for
"openssl <command>". Instead we follow the "cvs" interface idea
where all <command>s are called as "cvs <command>".
=> This no longer messes up the install dir with
symlinks and provides a single-one and consistent command line
interface. Additionally we can document it nicely with the single
already started openssl(1) manual page.
Status: Ralf +1
o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
1. The config vs. Configure scripts
It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
src/Configure. It confuses.
Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
which are currently in Configure.
2. The massive symlinking of Makefile.ssl -> Makefile:
First the `make -f Makefile.ssl links' command is nasty, second the
whole process is slow and third it seems to be done without real
need. And forth, the dependecies are currently missing. And fifth,
it's complicated to always go to the top-level in order to get the
local variables overriden.
Suggestion: Rename Makefile.ssl to Makefile.in, add
dependencies to Makefile.in and change the build process
to _generate_ Makefile out of Makefile.in by
substituting variables like CC, etc. This solves the
above problems.
3. The xxx.org -> xxx.h generation:
It's not obvious for which file xxx.org is the source.
Suggestion: Rename xxx.org to xxx.h.in (Autoconf style), this way
one sees that xxx.h.in is the input for xxx.h
o The installation under "make install" produces a very
installation layout: $prefix/certs and $prefix/private dirs. That's