On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Darren Reed wrote:
>
> > What I mean is that you cannot checkout any source code from the
> > opensolaris.org server and expect to run "./configure && make && make
> > install"
> > on any platform. If we ever want to make opensolaris code portable and
>
> And every day I thank my lucky stars for that. Autotools/libtool are
> some of the worst pieces of software ever written. They bloat
> makefiles with incomprehensible crap, stuff the build process into a
> cast-iron straitjacket, and more often than not fail to generate
> optimal or even working programs on anything other than GNU/Linux
> systems (and not all of those, either).
>
> Please do not go down this path. Not for NWAM, not for anything. A
> simple set of small traditional makefiles is easier to maintain,
> easier to debug, and easier to port. If I had any spare time, I'd be
> going the opposite direction, replacing the autotools garbage in SFW
> and the Companion with simple makefiles. The era of a million tiny
> Unices, all different, has long since passed; there are very few
> platforms of any importance today, and even if you had to write a
> couple of makefile includes for each of them you'd end up spending
> less time and energy doing that than making autotools work correctly.
>
> None of this even begins to address the rather bizarre question of why
> code destined for ON needs to be portable to other environments. It
> means only that if for some reason that's believed to be a
> requirement, autotools is not the way to meet it. If people want to
> type configure; make; make install, provide configure as a trivial
> wrapper on bldenv. Not autoconf, and especially not libtool. No.
> No, no, no. Never. Please.
Agreed 100%.
Keith - you have a talent for being able to express yourself clearly! :)
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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