From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Autoconf/Automake
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:03:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6s7eb$78h$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20060615174833.GA32247@dspnet.fr.eu.org
Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:02:10AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> These days, there aren't fifteen different versions of UNIX. There's a
>> couple, and it's perfectly ok to actually say "fix your damn system and
>> just install GNU make". It's easier to install GNU make than it is to
>> install autoconf/automake.
>
> You should be careful to separate autoconf and automake. Autoconf is
> not so bad, and you can make clean, maintainable Makefile.in and
> config.h.in files with it, because it uses simple substitution.
[...]
> So, autoconf can be useful. The rest should die.
Does autoconf generate configure script in POSIX shell, or in bash?
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-15 18:04 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 ` Autoconf/Automake Timo Hirvonen
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 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
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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