From: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 20:17:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Autoconf/Automake
Message-ID: <f36b08ee0606151317j235d3da9s1304ca9766289a47@mail.gmail.com>
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