On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Trent Piepho wrote:
> That's it! You can compile and link mplex with one single g++ command!
I don't see anywhere in that one line the building of the libmplex
shared libraries - that's what most of the build stuff is for.
> That's it, one command that fits on one line! For some reason autohell needs
> a ONE THOUSAND LINE Makefile to do this, and it doesn't even work!
Makefile.am is 76 lines long and guess what? Works flawlessly on
everything from an obsolete BSD variant up thru OS/X on to several
different Linux distributions and a modern BSD variant or two.
> When a package that is so simple it doesn't even need a makefile has a build
Come up with another one liner to build the shared libraries and
install 'em yet? ;)
mplex itself is basically a wrapper around the shared libraries as
I recall and the libs are what most of the makefile is about.
> process so complex that people are told they need to switch distributions to
> build it, that's a sign autohell has gone seriously out of control.
auto* is a bit of a mess in general but I can't call a 76 line
automake file "seriously out of control". It does have minimum
versions of the autohell tools required but that's not unusual.
Cheers,
Steven Schultz
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