* Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb:
> Media players with lots of optional formats and drivers are another.
> (They also have considerable problems with their Autoconf in my
> experience).
You probably mean their hand-written ./configure script, which is
intentionally incompatible w/ autoconf ("this is not autoconf"
as primary directive" ;-P) ... I guess we've got the same one
in mind ;-)
> Reality is that Kconfig front end to autotools does work - as you've
> proved. It's a good idea. :-)
Now, we just need an autoconf-alike frontend for Kconfig ;-)
> Most packages need lots of additional libraries installed - and the
> development versions of those libraries, for that matter. Too often
> the right development version - not too recent, not too old.
> With the wrong versions, there are surprises.
But that's not the problem of autoconf or any other buildsystem,
just bad engineering (often on both sides).
> You said about too many user-selectable options. Many large packages
> _check_ for many installed libraries. Get them wrong, and you have
> the same problems of untested combinations.
It even gets worse when they silently enable certain features on
presence/absence of some lib. That's btw one of the reasons why
sysroot is an primary constraint for me, even when building for the
platform+arch.
> Have you felt uncomfortable shipping a package that does use Autoconf,
> Automake and Libtool, knowing that the scripts generated by those
> tools are huge compared with the entire source of your package?
Yeah, that's one of those things in autotools I never understood:
why isn't there just one function for each type of check/action,
which is just called with the right params ?
cu
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