Hi Aleksey, On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:10:16AM +0600, Aleksey Demakov wrote: > Perhaps some people might find this interesting: > > gcc - AC_PREREQ(2.59) > http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/configure.ac?revision=121893&view=markup
Uses autoconf without automake (configure was created with 2.13 in gcc-4.2-20070124). > Python - AC_PREREQ(2.59) > http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/configure.in?rev=53508&view=auto Uses autoconf without automake (configure was created with 2.59 in python 2.5). > GNU libc - AC_PREREQ(2.53) > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/configure.in?rev=1.467&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=glibc Uses autoconf without automake (configure was created with 2.59 in glibc-2.5). > Apache - AC_PREREQ(2.50) > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/configure.in Uses autoconf without automake (configure was created with 2.59 in httpd-2.2.4). > Mozilla - AC_PREREQ(2.13) > http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/configure.in Uses autoconf without automake (and they really use 2.13). > Mono - no AC_PREREQ > http://svn.myrealbox.com/viewcvs/trunk/mono/configure.in?rev=72101&view=auto So none of the above projects uses automake, which IMHO should be in important criterion for a comparism. The autotools have a long history of problems and evolution; people often use them without really understanding the power behind this platform idependence mechanism. This leads to people starting other build systems like scons or cmake, which are 500% better but have only 1% of the functionality. Please excuse my penetrance, but I've seen so many problems coming from old autotool versions while maintaining > 400 software packets in PTXdist so far that I think I have a large enough data set to backup this position. But in the end it's surely up to you to decide. Robert -- Dipl.-Ing. Robert Schwebel | http://www.pengutronix.de Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 Hannoversche Str. 2, 31134 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-9 _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] http://dotgnu.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
