From: "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Autoconf/Automake
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:17:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f36b08ee0606151317j235d3da9s1304ca9766289a47@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606150954430.5498@g5.osdl.org>
On 6/15/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 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.
It's easier to learn GNUmake than to learn autoconf/automake or jam, too.
However, the idea of compiling small pieces of main() at the
configure-time to automatically figure what exactly is available --
I like how well this approach works. It works more
precisely than relying on uname.
Yakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-15 20:18 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 ` 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 ` 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 ` Yakov Lerner [this message]
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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