From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yakov Lerner" Subject: Re: Autoconf/Automake Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 23:17:57 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1150324030.23268.12.camel@dv> <20060615072450.GF7766@nowhere.earth> <20060615133146.GA5794@steel.home> <20060615163209.GJ7766@nowhere.earth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jun 15 22:18:04 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 1FqyI0-0008VQ-3a for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:18:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031259AbWFOUR6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031272AbWFOUR6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:58 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.181]:38622 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031259AbWFOUR6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:17:58 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id i49so402248pye for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:17:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PB0l3y4knHYoqiAyYZNpRZyTvyr+Y8+E4RqcgxKGRPu1bSRV4OuwJDjUzSIHAS5/SKUfwdXhgQpTRaS6WAZ/Bv/MWKVz1Zg3rw6EWefjg2zS/KUDXWSQ29B8rVHyKz27XCqx/rLf85cFYa1ujEtbeNuyWyFGeM+I0h04SwW+2JI= Received: by 10.35.69.11 with SMTP id w11mr3588034pyk; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.14.20 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:17:57 -0700 (PDT) To: "Linus Torvalds" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 6/15/06, 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. 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