On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 04:57:06PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> Arun Sharma proclaimed:
> > There are many incompatibilities. The usual solution in large projects is
> > to standardize on the GNU utilities, because they work on both HP-UX
> > and Linux.
>
> How about using autoconf? Is it overkill?
Depends on the situation. If the program needs to be portable across
10 different Unices, then autoconf is the way to go. But if there is
a substantial amount of time and effort that has gone into writing
existing makefiles, it might be easier to just port them over and fix
whatever HP-UX vs GNU tools incompatibilities, should they crop up.
-Arun
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