On 10/23/01 Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 03:24:31PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > 1) Build minimal perl 6 with default parameters using platform build tool
>
> But "platform build tool" is going to be 'make' - the alternative is
> that we maintain and ship every flavour of batch or shell script we can
> think of. I don't think much of that.
>
> And if we have to use make, then we're back with the very problems of portably
> calling compilers and so on that this supposed new build system was meant to
> avoid.
I'm going to bite and say the words (and get the flames).
autoconf automake libtool
Yes, they are not perfect, but they work for most of the other projects
and I see no real reason they wouldn't work well enough for parrot.
If anyone wants to develop a different build system, please think
a little and ask yourself if the new system is going to be really better
than auto*/libtool (and done on time).
lupus
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