On February 19, 2006 11:31 AM Gaby wrote: > ... > Bill Page wrote: > | Gaby said recently that he was interested in working on this. > > yup. I'm currently on road with my parents-in-law so I can't do as > much as I would want right now. I looked at the toplevel configure > and build machinery last night and we can definitely improve things > here :-) >
Agreed. > I'm curiious of why gmake, gtar and gpatch are required on solaris > boxes. > I think this was just a misguided attempt to deal with the fact that it is common on Solaris sytems to have two different toolchains installed: the Sun-provided C compiler and Unix utilities; as well as the GNU compiler and GNU tools. ./configure should be able to handle this in a better way. > I'm also curious as to what extent the autoconf/automake machinery > will blend with Axiom's pamplet style. > I don't see a problem but it might be desirable for example to test for notangle (and build noweb if necessary) during ./configure so that one can use notangle to extract the Makefile.in templates etc. from the distribution pamphlet files. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
