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Re: Autoconf/Automake

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YLYakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 15, 2006, 20:17 UTC
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<f36b08ee0606151317j235d3da9s1304ca9766289a47@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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Message 14 of 26 in “Autoconf/Automake”
  1. Pavel RoskinJun 14, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsJun 14, 2006
  3. Bertrand JacquinJun 14, 2006
  4. Timo HirvonenJun 14, 2006
  5. Yann DirsonJun 15, 2006
  6. Alex RiesenJun 15, 2006
  7. Yann DirsonJun 15, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJun 15, 2006
  9. Olivier GalibertJun 15, 2006
  10. Jakub NarebskiJun 15, 2006
  11. Olivier GalibertJun 15, 2006
  12. Petr BaudisJun 16, 2006
  13. Jerome LovyJun 16, 2006
  14. Yakov LernerJun 15, 2006
  15. Yann DirsonJun 15, 2006
  16. Linus TorvaldsJun 15, 2006
  17. Johannes SchindelinJun 15, 2006
  18. Nikolai WeibullJun 16, 2006
  19. Phil RichardsJun 15, 2006
  20. Timo HirvonenJun 15, 2006
  21. Johannes SchindelinJun 15, 2006
  22. Yann DirsonJun 15, 2006
  23. Johannes SchindelinJun 15, 2006
  24. Yann DirsonJun 16, 2006
  25. Petr BaudisJun 16, 2006
  26. Petr BaudisJun 16, 2006

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