On Jul 7, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
I like the following features the most: * Cross-compilation support * Building in another directory * Targets like clean, distclean, etc.* Ease of adding new binaries and libraries (both internal and external)* Testing framework integration
I'd add at least:* Ease of configuration (different platforms come with libraries in different places, it's much easier to invoke configure --with- libfoo=path than having to change some file to specify that path... especially once you automate your builds in a buildfarm) * Targets like distcheck, install DESTDIR=... or install prefix=... (sandboxing made easy) * libtool!! It's one of the most complete and convenient component of the autotools, it solves a hell lot of problems when you build on lots of platforms.
For us, these features do save costs in the long run; the configurationfiles are much more maintainable than custom shell scripts and makefiles.As I said above, the main difficulty is to understand how all this worksand to figure out how to do a certain thing -- this may be very time-consuming.
For the beginners I recommend these slides: http://www-src.lip6.fr/homepages/Alexandre.Duret-Lutz/dl/autotools.pdf -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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