2008/11/14 Anuradha Suraparaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've had some complaints about the build procedure because of > pkg-config. Though it is easy to find and install pkg-config for a > platform of choice not everybody likes it. Rather that auto-tools (which > has even more opponents than pkg-config), I was thinking of a configure > script along the lines of the one in MPlayer or FFmpeg. But the build > procedure is unlikely to change for the next few weeks atleast because > other tasks have taken priority.
yow. The hand-written configure scripts used by MPlayer and FFmpeg do not allow out-of-tree builds, and are inconsistent in the flags used for cross-compiling. Everyone who packages these or tries to put them into an embedded build tree has to write custom scripts to handle them; whereas generic scripts can be used for software that uses autotools. Of course you could put the extra effort in to duplicate all the autotools functionality, but that would be tedious. So you can probably also expect some complaints if you write a custom configure script. I guess you can't win :-) Conrad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Schrodinger-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/schrodinger-devel
