notmuch/configure, branch 0.34_rc0

configure: whitespace cleanup

2021-10-10T23:58:29Z

In order to make it easier to keep the whitespace consistent in the configure script, use the same style defined in devel/STYLE for C/C++. Specifically, a line should begin with zero or more tabs followed by fewer than eight spaces. Presumably this will be no more difficult for people editing configure than for people editing the C and C++ code.

configure: check explicitely for python dev (include) files

2021-10-09T19:39:06Z

As discussed at [1] we have received reports that the implicit check using cffi.FFI().verify() is not reliable in all environments. Since we already use pkg-config, and the python dev package should include a .pc file [2], add an extra check using pkg-config. On at least Debian, we have to know which version of python dev files with are looking for, so calculate that first. [1]: id:87im1g35ey.fsf@tethera.netid:87im1g35ey.fsf@tethera.net, [2]: checked on Debian and Fedora

configure: optional library sfsexp

2021-09-05T00:07:19Z

The configure part is essentially the same as the other checks using pkg-config. Since the optional inclusion of this feature changes what options are available to the user, include it in the "built_with" pseudo-configuration keys.

configure: replace $(realpath emacs) with $(cd emacs && pwd -P)

2020-10-21T10:01:37Z

For portability; the realpath command (e.g. from GNU coreutils) is not so common outside Linux systems. The "$(cd emacs && pwd -P)" replaces that realpath(1) execution suitably in this context (using just bash(1) builtins).

configure: Check if emacs >= 25 (instead of >= 24) is available

2020-08-12T23:24:29Z

"The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1." 25.1 is the first "released" version of Emacs 25.

configure: drop check for default xapian backend

2020-08-08T19:01:02Z

Starting from xapian 1.3.5, xapian switched default backend to glass. From 00cdfe10 (build: drop support for xapian versions less than 1.4, 2020-04-22), we only support xapian 1.4.0+. Effectively, we don't need to check for default xapian backend anymore. Further more, from 99a7aac8 (test: drop use of db_ending, 2020-07-29), our test framework has become independence from default xapian. Let's drop it. Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh

configure: check for pytest with python -m pytest

2020-08-08T18:58:59Z

On different distro, pytest is suffixed with different patterns. On the other hand, `python3-pytest' could be invoked correctly, via `python3 -m pytest', the latter is used by our tests, now. Switch to `$python -m pytest` to fix address all incompatible naming. Signed-off-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh

configure: replace multiple redirects with redirected block

2020-07-18T14:54:54Z

This belatedly implements Tomi's suggestion from id:m25zaukv6u.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi

configure: make sure WITH_PYTHON_DOCS is initialized

2020-07-16T18:59:45Z

Thanks to pazz for reporting the problem.

doc: add new python bindings to main documentation tree.

2020-07-15T11:37:11Z

A separate conf.py and doc directory (or will be needed if someone wants to build the bindings docs separately from notmuch.