Re: inclusion of figlet source

[Jacob Gorm Hansen <jacobg@diku.dk>]

Keir Fraser wrote:

 > Using autoconf/automake would make sense for a highly portable
 > application that must compile on many platforms with many different
 > environments and compilers. For Xen I think it'll just complicate
 > things. We only support one arch at the moment -- as others are
 > incorporated they will extend compile.h manually for their own
 > compilation environment if it isn't GCC. The main thing that autoconf
 > does of course is shield you from environment differences (e.g. sysv
 > vs. bsd) -- but Xen never includes system headers so this is also a
 > non-issue.

If anyone is thinking of changing the build system, I can highly 
recommend Jam. It handles stuff like dependency scanning and 
multi-directory builds much better than Make does, allows more portable 
build specifications, and unlike other modern Make-replacements it does 
not need a full language runtime (like Ant or Scons do) to run.

Jacob


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