Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:11:56AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
The package build system is now based on autotools. The build system
supports separate CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for suid programs (SUID_CFLAGS,
SUID_LDFLAGS). For more details see the README file
And this is really dumb. autotools is a completely pain in the ass and
not useful at all for linux-only tools.
A myth. It is quite useful for packagers, because of the high Just
Works(tm) factor. After porting an entire across several revisions of a
distro, the autotools-based packages are the ones that work out of the
box 90% of the time.
The other 90% of _my_ time comes from annoying people who roll their own
Makefile/build solution, which the packager has to then learn.
It's just not scalable for people to keep building their own build
solutions.
Jeff
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