Dear autoconfers, As you are well aware certain autoconf versions may sometimes require a specific orchestra of the M4-perl-automake-libtool quartet. Such information that relates to building specific software is often scattered within wikis, along with download instructions, patchfiles, etc, you know the deal. Theoretically, this problem is solved by packaging (say, .srpms) but reality has it, sometimes you need many versions of one software (say, GCC or, autoconf for testing itself). Within High Performance Computing this problem is very pronounced along with the need to custom-patch software to get things going, either fast or ...at all. HPC systems often have some variation of "environment-modules" for that (env-mod-c/tcl, Lmod etc) Now, UGent started the following tool in python which has proven to be a good ride, needless to say, much of the autotools business is going strong all along: * https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki -> List-of-supported-software-packages I hope you find it useful, perhaps adding it in "Related Software" section on gnu.org page. Also, you may have interesting comments to provide, if you wander around this area: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/tree/master/easybuild/easyconfigs/m/motif with seasonal wishes, Fotis ps. EasyBuild is more of a build system than a ports tool, since it is not truly meant to be run out of user-space and caters for wrapping around complex builds, multiple versions etc. -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # Yelling in a CERN forum _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
