Subject: Re: Building CVS
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 15:01:07 CDT
According to Paul Rohr <paul@abisource.com>:
>
> >Sorry for the confusion.
> >
> >Hub
> >
> >[*] the autconf stuff works, but not the way you expect.
>
> Ditto. Things were much less confusing when we only had one way to build
> things.
autoconf build system brings dependencies, which is a REAL improvement.
> Since there were no autoconf experts on the original team, we built
> an XP diving make system instead. I'm slowly being convinced that an XP
> autoconf-only build environment *might* be feasible, but the following
> populations are still 100% disjoint AFAICT:
>
> - autoconf experts
> - people maintaining all the non-Unix builds
MacOS X build (non UNIX) is fully maintained with autoconf :-)
> Until those two populations cross-pollinate enough, we'll have difficulty
> bridging the gap.
Sure. I'll try to become more fluent in autoconf then :-)
> Speaking only for myself, it still takes me *much* less time to update a few
> simple diving makefiles than it does to learn enough autoconf stuff to jump
> the gap. Thus my continual insistence that folks (like Sam) try to jump
> that gap from the other side, instead. :-)
Updating the autoconf build to add files is a kid's play.
:-)
Hub, MacOS X autoconf builder
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