Hi Bodo :)
* Bodo Eggert <7eggert@xxxxxx> dixit:
> Nix <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 4 Jul 2007, DervishD stated:
> >> Anyway, if you don't like mobs or you just don't want to try it,
> >> that's fine, but please don't use autotools, it doesn't make much sense
> >> for a linux only project, since you will be using only the "directory
> >> choosing" part of autotools. Maybe a hand made script will help (and I
> >
> > Oh, yeah, great, another hand-rolled build system. That's *juwt* what
> > those of us who have autotools working well (with config.site's that
> > do all we need and then some) are looking forward to.
> >
> > There are advantages to standardization, you know. A *lot* of
> > autobuilders know how to make autoconf-generated configure scripts jump
> > through hoops. I was downright *happy* when util-linux was
> > autoconfiscated: I could ditch the code to handle automatic
> > configuration of yet another one-package hand-rolled build system.
>
> Standardisation is good, but autotools (as they are used) usurally isn't.
Usually, by picking other's project configure.in and tweak blindly.
> It tests for the availability of a fortran compiler for a C-only
> project, checks the width of integers on i386 for projects not caring
> about that and fails to find installed libraries without telling how
> it was supposed to find them or how to make it find that library.
My favourite is when the project doesn't honor --*dir options. Or
when the project breaks badly if you put some files in different places
by using configure options... That's good standarization.
> Configuring the build of an autotools program is harder than nescensary;
> if it used a config file, you could easily save it somewhere while adding
> comments on how and why you did *that* choice, and you could possibly
> use a set of default configs which you'd just include.
Looks like CMake...
> I'm really really happy if I read 'edit Makefile.conf and run make...'.
Again, this looks like CMake...
I share your view entirely.
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
--
Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net
It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen!
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
