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[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 05 June 2008 15:17:05 Dan Nicholson wrote:
> 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?
>

because they create absolutely unmaintainable and unreviewable 
Makefiles and they macro stuff is impossible to edit and extend
easily