On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:33:31PM -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote: > On 01/14/2013 11:20 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > >why bother using autoconf and automake > > For a very simple reason, fixing hand written makefiles is the > number 1 burden in distribution mainteniance. > > Any autotools stuff provided is always better and causes less pain > than ad-hoc build scripts. Maybe for distribution people (although I haven't had that many complaints with my hand-written Makefile.in files). But automake causes ***huge*** amounts of pain for developers, especially when they want to run binaries out of the build tree for debugging purposes or for regression testing. I hate automake almost as much as I dispise GNOME 3. - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
