On Thursday 08 December 2005 17:07, Francis ANDRE wrote: > IMHO, ant should not be used to generate the configure and makefile > scripts; Instead the building process must avoid all these specific Unix > tools like autoconf/configure. As a example of a great usage of ant for > building a product, have a look to the directory in the Apache axis project > : ws-axis/c/build.
I really don't like the idea of having to install ant just to build apache. It's a major new dependency, yet adds nothing to the server. Or am I missing something? -- Nick Kew