[MPlayer-dev-eng] autoconf

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Mon Mar 24 23:34:04 CET 2003


On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:55:42PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote:
> Winner of tha face compo <gabucino at mplayerhq.hu> wrote:
> > Paul Jarc wrote:
> >> Autoconf's generated code is used *much* more widely than your
> >> hand-written code, and so is more widely tested and less likely to be
> >> buggy.
> >
> > We know that feeling when we download a CVS of some stuff, and it
> > vomits 65535 pages of missing AC_* and AM_* macros.
> 
> I was talking about the generated shell scripts, not autoconf itself.
> Anyway, I'm not going to try to promote autoconf here anymore.

Thank you very much.

Rich



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