Re: [RFC PATCH] Makefile: Turn off the configure target by default

From: Tor Arntsen <tor@spacetec.no>
Date: Oct 12, 2010, 09:10 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikG1U7CztwcbyDcsqsmeO9QXC2sA3e60mT_pL-7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4CB41D50.9020208@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:33, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote: [configure etc]

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> That thread was just the hair-trigger, so to say, there were many others
> in the past. But it's very typical. We often have "Don't use configure -
> it's second class"-type answers to build problems. I don't really
> remember that many "I use configure, and it works here"-type answers.
>
> Given the vigorous defense showing up here against deprecating configure
> (in the sense of declaring it second class), we can all be confident
> that there will be many knowledgeable and helpful answers to build
> problems for configure users, right?

At the moment './configure; make' works better than just 'make' on Tru64 and AIX platforms. I have patches somewhere to improve just 'make' on those platforms but I haven't gotten around to post them yet (need some polishing, or at least re-check against current .git). One reason I figured it's no hurry is that ./configure actually takes care of things there for now.

(The series posted by Gary from The Written Word, and mostly included by now I think, was mainly based on TWW using configure on all platforms btw. IIRC.)

-Tor