[PATCH phosphor-host-ipmid] Initial autotools support

[Patrick Williams]

Stewart,

See the RFC patch set I just uploaded for my attempt at a cmake-based
system.  I personally feel that it is much cleaner for the 95th
percentile cases that developers have than autotools.  I believe it
would also be fairly straight-forward for us to write TravisCI tooling
that leverages the 'find_library' directives to ensure dependencies are
properly downloaded and compiled against.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 02:05:18PM -0600, Patrick Williams wrote:
> > There's also the odd thing at the moment for host-ipmid where there's a
> > shared library that depends on symbols in the binary
> 
> The shared libraries are plugins for host-ipmid.  We happen to be
> providing a set of common plugins but those can be overridden by a
> particular machine.  We also provide a set of openpower specific plugins
> for the parts of IPMI that are not specified (OEM commands) and those
> are in another package.
> 
> We should have a discussion on the call about autotools vs (...).  The US
> side of the team has zero experience with autotools and so it was easier
> to just write some simple makefiles to get started.
> 
> I don't consider autotools to be the "defacto standard" since cmake is
> also pretty popular.
> 
> -- 
> Patrick Williams



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