eevans/thrift-repackage — pull request #1 by javacruft (2012-06-19 12:31:50+00:00)
Title: Working thift-compiler repack

Hi Eric

As discussed, I've done some work on the compiler repack to produce something that can be built.

A few comments:

1) Origin of source tar.gz

I'm assuming that the tar.gz in the tree is the one that is officially released by Apache Thrift; it contains quite a bit of cruft which I would like to avoid if possible; could we switch to repacking tagged versions from the upstream VCS? This is pretty simple through github and avoids the cruft from the release tarball.

I tested my update against such a tarball; the release tarball seems to be missing bootstrap.sh and cleanup.sh which are useful.

2) Munging configure.ac for compiler only

Its not elegant but it works; I hacked on a regex for a while but it defeated me.