Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

[DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>]

    Hi Bodo :)

 * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> dixit:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, DervishD wrote:
> >  * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> dixit:
> 
> > > Standardisation is good, but autotools (as they are used) usurally isn't.
> > 
> >     Usually, by picking other's project configure.in and tweak blindly.
> 
> If it were that easy to write a correct automake script, people would do 
> 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 autoconf
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 nescensary;
> > > if it used a config file, you could easily save it somewhere while adding
> > > comments on how and why you did *that* choice, and you could possibly
> > > use a set of default configs which you'd just include.
> > 
> >     Looks like CMake...
> 
> 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.

    Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado

-- 
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It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen!
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