Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> From: Josh MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> jmacd> * clean and polish the installation and build process. perl
> jmacd> is unacceptable.
>
> I agree with most of what you said, but per, unacceptable? I'm sorry,
> but I fail to see why (apart from the fact that you might need to get
> pel and install it). Perl may be ugly according to some, but let's
> face it, it's today one of the most portable scripting languages that
> you can find. Perl exists for Unix, Winblows (I don't know if it
> exists for all variants), Unix and VMS (not that it's used by the VMS
> parts yet, but I'm probably getting there).
>
> jmacd> be ignored. I want to see real Makefiles, with a real
> jmacd> configure that sets things up properly.
>
> A "real" configure, is it the kind that is generated from a configure.in
> with GNU autoconf? Sure, that works and is pretty elegant, but it's
> very nonportable today. "Real" Makefiles?
It is is portable. If an developer may be asked to install perl (which
is
not standard on Win32) they may also be asked to install cygnus32.
This would allow for a automake/autoconf makefile and shared work with
the Mozilla project as they face the same problem and are working on
a windows-autoconf support.
mfg lutz
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