Hi all, recently, Jan and I have looked at some aspects of the Pathfinder/MonetDB build process. And we had the impression that there is some inconsistency in the current setup. The makefiles of all MonetDB-related projects currently include $MONETDB_CONFDIR/rules.mk. This file basically contains instructions on how to use the tools from the buildtools package to compile all the projects from CVS sources. To compile a project from distributed tarballs, none of these rules should be necessary. Thus, I think a much better place to host the rules.mk file would be in the buildtools package. Thus I would suggest to do the following changes and ask for your comments whether these changes make sense: -- rules.mk goes to the buildtools package. This is where it belongs to. -- The buildtools package gets its `buildtools-config' bash script in order to allow remaining packages to actually find rules.mk. -- Instead of include $(MONETDB_CONFDIR)/*.mk the bootstrap script inserts if HAVE_BUILDTOOLS include $(BUILDTOOLS_CONFDIR)/rules.mk endif to make the inclusion of the rules dependent on the outcome of the ./configure run. (Otherwise, we would depend on the buildtools in the distribution tarballs, which we don't want.) -- The tests invoked by ./configure finally need to take care of setting HAVE_BUILDTOOLS appropriately (using buildtools-config). If nobody objects, I would do the necessary changes as soon as we have forked off the new stable branch. Jens -- Jens Teubner Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Department of Informatics D-85748 Garching, Germany Tel: +49 89 289-17259 Fax: +49 89 289-17263 Statistics show that most people are in the majority, while a few are in the minority. -- Nitin Borwankar