mtd-utils: Swtich to autotools based build system

[Richard Weinberger]

Hi!

Am 25.07.2016 um 17:02 schrieb David Oberhollenzer:
> This patch series is based on Richards RFC to replace the hand
> written Makefiles with an autoconf/automake based build system
> to gain all the advantages of having an _actual_ build system
> that is high level, widely used, well known and mature/stable.
> 
> Switching to the GNU buildsystem should make it a lot easier for
> people to [cross] compile the mtd-utils and integrating them into
> existing, automated [cross] build toolchains, as the autotools are
> very widely used/known, effectively representing a pseudo-standard
> that people are familiar with and that a lot of tools have been
> adapted to.
> 
> The GNU build system also had a few more decades time and a _lot_
> more testing to mature in regards to cross compilation setups and
> toolchains than the previous mtd-utils build system that would have
> to be further supported and maintained in its entirety.
> 
> The proposed autotools based build system should also be easier to
> maintain than a hurdle of makefiles. The automake files are more
> high level and only contain a list of input files for each program.
> Generating the makefiles with precise dependencies and build steps
> is done by the build system.
> 
> Furthermore, files like the test scripts can fairly easily be
> processed with autoconf at compile time to (for instance) replace
> file locations with the actual path where a program is configured
> to be installed.

Let's ask also package maintainers for their opinion.
They have to (cross)build and package mtd-utils. :-)

You can find the whole series on:
https://github.com/sigma-star/mtd-utils.git autoconf_25072016

Thanks,
//richard