On 10/07/2011, at 7:26 AM, Matt Welland wrote: > Worked great for me on two Ubuntu machines. One mildly unusual thing, "make > install" uses mv to put the binary in /usr/local/bin. Normally I think > autoconf generated Makefiles will use install or a sh script to emulated > install and keeps the executable in the build dir. Probably no big deal but > why deviate from what is familiar?
That's the way it worked previously. I tried to be as unobtrusive as possible with the initial version. Cheers, Steve > > Matt > -=- > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Eric <e...@deptj.eu> wrote: > > On Wed, July 6, 2011 6:11 am, Steve Bennett wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > >> I really dislike autoconf - a feeling cultivated through years of > >> experience > >> trying to use it. And I think I'm probably not alone in that feeling. > > > > You are very much not alone. See http://msteveb.github.com/autosetup/why/ > > > > Not wishing to rain on anyone's parade, but, as it says in the autoconf > info page, > > "Those who do not understand Autoconf are condemned to reinvent it, > poorly. " > > I rather like Steve's reimplementation. It uses TCL. But for systems that > do not have TCL installed by default, it includes the complete source code > for JimTcl which it automatically compiles and runs. Unlike autoconf, I'm > actual able to follow the code for Steve's autosetup. > > My only complaint with autosetup is that autosetup itself is maintained on > github :-( > > The autosetup version of Fossil is now available on a branch. Some > additional work is needed. > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/timeline?r=autosetup > > > Maybe not, but your first reference from the above page is a bit OTT (as > some of the comments below it say). > > Regards, > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -- µWeb: Embedded Web Framework - http://uweb.workware.net.au/ WorkWare Systems Pty Ltd W: www.workware.net.au P: +61 434 921 300 E: ste...@workware.net.au F: +61 7 3391 6002
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