From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DervishD Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:51:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20070706125137.GA1518@DervishD> References: <8CYT9-4Ou-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <8Dh9k-8lT-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8DtDz-3xC-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070705192002.GB11204@DervishD> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Nix , Karel Zak , List util-linux-ng , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Return-path: Received: from smtp01.cdmon.com ([86.109.99.230]:63108 "EHLO smtp01.cdmon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763184AbXGFMvn (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:51:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hi Bodo :) * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> dixit: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, DervishD wrote: > > * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> dixit: >=20 > > > Standardisation is good, but autotools (as they are used) usurall= y isn't. > >=20 > > Usually, by picking other's project configure.in and tweak blin= dly. >=20 > If it were that easy to write a correct automake script, people would= do=20 > that. Wouldn't they? That's exactly what I meant! People don't write good autotools scripts because it's difficult to learn autoconf and automake and it's almost impossible to master. It's more or less easy to write an autocon= f script, but it's not so easy to make it right, powerful and to honor every configure switch, etc... > > > Configuring the build of an autotools program is harder than nesc= ensary; > > > if it used a config file, you could easily save it somewhere whil= e adding > > > comments on how and why you did *that* choice, and you could poss= ibly > > > use a set of default configs which you'd just include. > >=20 > > Looks like CMake... >=20 > Obviously something I should look at. Me too. I've learned a bit of CMake because I have my own building system ("configure" compatible from the point of view of the packager), but instead of adding new features I think I'm going to switch to CMake fully. Ra=FAl N=FA=F1ez de Arenas Coronado --=20 Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel= " in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html