On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:11:41PM +0000, Tom Payne wrote: > There's eleven ugly lines of sed to patch system.mk and Makefile, all > because Ion doesn't support autoconf.
Why use sed? Why not just create a gentoo.mk to replace system.mk? All you have to do when a new release comes out is check if anything significant has been done to system.mk and port the changes to gentoo.mk if necessary. You'd probably do almost the same with autoconf; check for new compile time options that you want enabled in the package. > > A minimal library to get around some of the most common OS function > > availability/compatibility issues should be written. > glib/gtk? Do you consider those minimal? I mean a few kilobyte, as low-level as possible, library to go around the small differences between SYSV/BSD flavours of system calls and such. > In the meantime, please would you accept an autoconf script? I don't want to maintain anything that has anything to do with autoconf and I would have to to make new releases and to actually work on Iont place for such a script is probably the Wiki... -- Tuomo
