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From: Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
To: proski@gnu.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Autoconf/Automake
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:18:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060615021832.4f07a694.tihirvon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1150324030.23268.12.camel@dv>

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Is there any interest in converting the build system used by git to
> Autoconf and Automake?  The ad-hoc configuration in Makefile is getting
> too big.  As for nice features like remembering $prefix, wouldn't it be
> better to add them to Automake instead of limiting them to just one
> project?
> 
> Other goodies from Automake are "make distcheck" and automatic
> dependency tracking.  Compatibility with non-GNU make could earn us some
> respect from BSD folks.
> 
> I converted several projects to the GNU build system, including qgit.
> It may be hard to get right, but then it just works for any
> configuration without giving any trouble.

Autotools almost drove me crazy so I had to write my own configure
system:

   http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/tconf.html

It is really easy to use and quite flexible.</shameless plug>

Personally I don't think git needs autoconf/tconf/whatever. The current
makefile is good enough.

-- 
http://onion.dynserv.net/~timo/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-14 23:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-14 22:27 Autoconf/Automake Pavel Roskin
2006-06-14 22:45 ` Autoconf/Automake Linus Torvalds
2006-06-14 22:54 ` Autoconf/Automake Bertrand Jacquin
2006-06-14 23:18 ` Timo Hirvonen [this message]
2006-06-15  7:24 ` Autoconf/Automake Yann Dirson
2006-06-15 13:31   ` Autoconf/Automake Alex Riesen
2006-06-15 16:32     ` Autoconf/Automake Yann Dirson
2006-06-15 17:02       ` Autoconf/Automake Linus Torvalds
2006-06-15 17:48         ` Autoconf/Automake Olivier Galibert
2006-06-15 18:03           ` Autoconf/Automake Jakub Narebski
2006-06-15 18:19             ` Autoconf/Automake Olivier Galibert
2006-06-16 18:23             ` Autoconf/Automake Petr Baudis
2006-06-16  9:06           ` Autoconf/Automake Jerome Lovy
2006-06-15 20:17         ` Autoconf/Automake Yakov Lerner
2006-06-15 21:14         ` Autoconf/Automake Yann Dirson
2006-06-15 22:54           ` Autoconf/Automake Linus Torvalds
2006-06-15 23:10             ` Autoconf/Automake Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-16  6:51               ` Autoconf/Automake Nikolai Weibull
2006-06-15 20:10     ` Autoconf/Automake Phil Richards
2006-06-15 20:32       ` Autoconf/Automake Timo Hirvonen
2006-06-15 20:42       ` Autoconf/Automake Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-15 22:05         ` Autoconf/Automake Yann Dirson
2006-06-15 22:58           ` Autoconf/Automake Johannes Schindelin
2006-06-16 20:17             ` Autoconf/Automake Yann Dirson
2006-06-16 20:42               ` Autoconf/Automake Petr Baudis
2006-06-16 18:31           ` Autoconf/Automake Petr Baudis

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