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[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Nico Sabbi <Nicola.Sabbi at poste.it> wrote:
> Il Thursday 05 June 2008 00:39:35 Rafaël Carré ha scritto:
>>
>> Note that I saw a configure2 file, I then supposed you were about to
>> throw away the beloved autotools ?
>
> I'm going to drop autoshit as soon as I'm sure that configure2 always works
> well (I have problems with the 2 horrid "install" in Solaris that is totally incompatible
> with everything else)

I realize my opinion doesn't matter in this context, but I think
you're making a huge mistake thinking you can reinvent 15+ years of
portability experience that exist in the autotools. They don't exist
just to piss you off. You may think that autoconf and libtool are
really poorly implemented, but the fact is that they contain a vast
amount of information on getting builds to work on different
platforms. There are, in fact, very good reasons why the vast majority
of open source projects use the autotools.

Do you realize that the configure2/Makefile route is non-portable in
the shared library creation by assuming that -Wl,-soname can always be
passed? Do you realize that -fPIC is only supported on GCC? Take a
look at the logic in /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 and ask yourself if
you really want to be recreating that.

Sorry for starting an argument, but I think you're being shortsighted.
I'm curious, why don't you like the autotools?

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Dan