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Re: AutoConf / AutoMake



Russ Nelson wrote:
> Mark Johnson writes:
>  >     Has anybody converted ucspi-tcp / daemontools / djbdns/ qmail to
>  > build via the GNU Autotools?
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve?

Good question. Am I the only one who find autotools/automake too much of
a hack to be useful ? I mean: if we need things like automake to make
the makefile and autotools to create configure scripts that will then
make automake files which coincidentally make the makefile that will
make the program...

... then I think we are so far lost in patching up things that should be
right in the first place that we should seriously consider fixing some
underlying problems of the O.S (either directly) or indirectly by
incorporating the different approaches in the source code.

Can we please start a flame war on autotools ? :-)))

-- 
Dr. Werner Van Belle
http://werner.yellowcouch.org/

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