Black&White Project/Automatic compilation/configure

In order to ease maintenance and readability of this very essential script in the build process, we have decided that configure.ac needed a major rewrite. Because this script cascades everywhere towards the compilation chain, we will work on the rewrite in parallel.

To use the new compile script, do the following:

./autogen.sh alt

The configure.ac does not exist anymore in svn. A link to configure_orig.ac (previous version) is created by autogen.sh.

Changes

The new configure script will tend to a more standard autotools approach by changing options names.
There are two main direction: static build or shared build.
Each dependency (shared objects or archive) can be specified.
Not found dependencies falls back to download/compile mode.
Download/compile respects main direction.
Each dependency can be explicitly compiled statically

Options

--build-static (default: false)

variable: STATIC_BUILD (bool)

Defines whether to build a static version or not. There is no --build-shared option.

--with-gecko-sdk=

variable: GECKO_SDK_PATH (path)

Debian package: xulrunner-1.9-dev (ubuntu maverick and before, debian 6) Gecko_SDK

--with-z

variable: ZLIB_PATH (path)

Debian package: zlib1g-dev

--with-z=

variable: ZLIB_PATH (path)

--with-xapian

variable: XAPIAN_PATH (path)

Debian package: libxapian-dev

--with-xapian=

variable: XAPIAN_PATH (path)

--with-icu

variable: ICU_PATH (path)

Debian package: libicu-dev

--with-icu=

variable: ICU_PATH (path)

--with-sqlite

variable: SQLITE_PATH (path)

Debian package: libsqlite3-dev

--with-sqlite=

variable: SQLITE_PATH (path)

--with-uuid

variable: UUID_PATH (path)

Debian package: uuid-dev

--with-uuid=

variable: UUID_PATH (path)

e2fsprogs-utils

--with-microhttpd

variable: LIBMICROHTTPD_PATH (path)

Debian package: libmicrohttpd-dev

--with-microhttpd=

variable: LIBMICROHTTPD_PATH (path)

--with-lzma

variable: LZMA_PATH (path)

Debian package: liblzma-dev

--with-lzma=

variable: LZMA_PATH (path)

--with-cares

variable: CARES_PATH (path)

Debian package: libc-ares-dev

--with-cares=

variable: CARES_PATH (path)

--with-aria2

variable: ARIA2_PATH (path)

Debian package: aria2 (/! Kiwix now requires version 1.14 which is not yet in debian/ubuntu)

--with-aria2=