> behnke> Would it be possible to port autoconf/m4 to Perl?
>
> That should be possible. Personally, I like the idea enormously! At
> least the autoconf stuff. It might be a good idea to keep the m4 part
> of it, that's not the hard part. The hard part is to translate all
> the sh code in the m4 files to other languages, for OS:es where sh is
> not at all a good thing to try.
>
Thanks for bringing that up :)
As I said before, I am in the process of porting openssl 0.9.1 to
a rtos and that one does not have either perl or sh on the target.
In fact, it may not even have a shell, i.e. all stuff is C code only.
I do not mind perl/script stuff in the config/build/install stages
but it is really a pain if the test stage contains such stuff :(
So while we are all wishing for the future, I'd like to see less,
or at least not more, scripts in particulary the test system
which obviously have to run on the target. It would be good if
people would try to think in terms of buildhost and runhost.
Lennart Bang
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ps: I am sorry I have no feedback on the openssl 0.9.2
release other than the ones I have submitted last 2 weeks,
due to the fact that I have not even started porting the
test system yet and since I have to do quite some manual
work to cross compile I can't easily upgrade to daily
snapshots. I will try the latest tarball tomorrow
though.
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