gEDA-user: Footprint with Unusual Pads

[Dan McMahill]

John Griessen wrote:
> 
> 
> Stuart Brorson wrote:
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>>> Plus, m4 isn't readily available on Windows platforms, so moving to
>>> newlib makes Windows support easier.
>>
>>
>> Another reason to have the developers run the M4 processor, and not
>> the users.

> Since it's GPL, we have to delete the use of M4 entirely to delete it in 
> a user's source build process.

That is simply not true.  The suggestion was to only run m4 when you 
configure with --enable-maintainer-mode.  So clearly all the required 
sources are there and available.  Here is another example, the user 
build process does not use autoconf but rather the output (configure) 
but we do provide the source (configure.ac).

My thoughts were either the user build always runs the m4 stuff (not 
unreasonable, if you don't have m4, then chances are you don't have the 
other tools like /bin/sh and make and a c-compiler) or to include the m4 
output so that the build rules don't get triggered unless the user 
touches the m4 input files.  I like this much better than the maintainer 
mode stuff anyway.  We get way too many complaints as it is from users 
who build from cvs but who don't read README.cvs to see you should 
disable building the docs or build in maintainer mode.  I don't want to 
add to that mess.

-Dan