On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:30:19AM -0500, Timm Murray wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > <delurk> > > I searched the list archives on groups.google.org to try to get more context > for this discussion, but didn't come up with much that seems relevent. Can > somebody point me to an old thread where Autoconf is discussed? > > One other thing: > > > *) Person building runs platform-specific script > > If that script is going to be platform-specific anyway, why not use Autoconf > for the platforms that can handle it? You'd cover a rather large number of > platforms that way, and the ones you don't are going to need their own script > regardless.
Because the plan is to build a minimal parrot first, then use it to do the probing. The platform specific script that gets run isn't going to do any probing, so a straight generated bourne shell script will do the trick. The probing is going to *have* to get written in something that compiles down to parrot bytecode to work on the autoconf-deprived systems, so with that as a given there's no need for autoconf ahead of that. Nicholas Clark
