From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Autoconf/Automake Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:03:56 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <1150324030.23268.12.camel@dv> <20060615072450.GF7766@nowhere.earth> <20060615133146.GA5794@steel.home> <20060615163209.GJ7766@nowhere.earth> <20060615174833.GA32247@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 15 20:04:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqwCm-00086N-96 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:04:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030910AbWFOSEY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:04:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030935AbWFOSEY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:04:24 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58854 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030910AbWFOSEX (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 14:04:23 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FqwCT-00083J-B7 for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:04:13 +0200 Received: from 193.0.122.19 ([193.0.122.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:04:13 +0200 Received: from jnareb by 193.0.122.19 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:04:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.0.122.19 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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