Allow fuse to be disabled

[whitty]

To relax requirements on external packages

[relan]

Thanks for the proposition! I definitely like the idea of modularity. But things are not that easy. Slightly filtered versions of Makefile.am and configure.ac are used in fuse-exfat and exfat-utils packages I publish on each release. I see three options here.

1. Continue using a script that converts generic Makefile.am and configure.ac into package-specific versions.
2. Modify Makefile.am and configure.ac so that do the right things depending on the package they are put into. E.g. disable FUSE dependency if there is no fuse subdirectory.
3. Unite fuse-exfat and exfat-utils into a single package. Not sure whether packages maintainers will be happy with this.

What do you think?

[whitty]

Hi - I didn't have the need to split the packaging you have.

Is there any background I can follow up with to understand what you do - ie what steps to you follow to generate a release today.

I'm sure we can work something out that doesn't involve 3.

[relan]

Currently it's an ugly and fragile script (in the form of a makefile) that generates tarballs:

all:
    # fuse-exfat prepare
    grep -vwE '(git|autoconf|automake|autoreconf|cd exfat)' README.md > README
    git checkout configure.ac Makefile.am
    # fuse-exfat
    grep -wvE 'dump/Makefile|fsck/Makefile|label/Makefile|mkfs/Makefile' configure.ac > configure.ac.tmp
    sed -e 's/\[exfat\]/[fuse-exfat]/' -i configure.ac.tmp
    grep -wv SUBDIRS Makefile.am > Makefile.am.tmp
    echo 'SUBDIRS = libexfat fuse' >> Makefile.am.tmp
    # fuse-exfat complete
    mv configure.ac.tmp configure.ac
    mv Makefile.am.tmp Makefile.am
    autoreconf -i
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make distcheck
    # fuse-exfat prepare
    git checkout configure.ac Makefile.am
    # exfat-utils
    grep -wv 'fuse' configure.ac > configure.ac.tmp
    sed -e 's/\[exfat\]/[exfat-utils]/' -i configure.ac.tmp
    grep -wv SUBDIRS Makefile.am > Makefile.am.tmp
    echo 'SUBDIRS = libexfat dump fsck label mkfs' >> Makefile.am.tmp
    # exfat-utils complete
    mv configure.ac.tmp configure.ac
    mv Makefile.am.tmp Makefile.am
    autoreconf -i
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    make distcheck
    git checkout configure.ac Makefile.am
    rm README

.PHONY: all

Ideas on how to improve this workflow are very welcome.

[ahkok]

It appears that building without libublio and fuse causes the fuse parts not to be built. Enough to close this now?

[ahkok]

NVM this was split entirely... PLZ close this bug :)