On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 11:17:36AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2015 04 Jul 10:00 -0500, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
> > Mostly agreed on all the points you made. But WRT the autotools, they are
> > such a baroque collection of tools, requiring knowledge of a minimum of five
> > languages to use e
* On 2015 04 Jul 10:00 -0500, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Mostly agreed on all the points you made. But WRT the autotools, they are
> such a baroque collection of tools, requiring knowledge of a minimum of five
> languages to use effectively (Bourne shell, m4, make, autoconf and
> automake), I can't rea
Le 04/07/2015 16:58, Roger Leigh a écrit :
On 04/07/2015 12:23, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2015 04 Jul 05:02 -0500, John Jensen wrote:
A lot of software is built using GNU Autotools. It is a very extensive
system that has a very steep learning curve in proportion with its
power. The GNU docu
Building on Nate's answer.
On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 07:23:52AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2015 04 Jul 05:02 -0500, John Jensen wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've been following this list for a long time. I'm a supporter of open
> > source and the philosophy around it. I studied programming ye
On 04/07/2015 12:23, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* On 2015 04 Jul 05:02 -0500, John Jensen wrote:
A lot of software is built using GNU Autotools. It is a very extensive
system that has a very steep learning curve in proportion with its
power. The GNU documentation serves more as a reference manual
* On 2015 04 Jul 05:02 -0500, John Jensen wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've been following this list for a long time. I'm a supporter of open
> source and the philosophy around it. I studied programming years ago but as
> the work where I live, at the time, was in other areas I moved on to other
> things.
Hi All,
I've been following this list for a long time. I'm a supporter of open
source and the philosophy around it. I studied programming years ago but as
the work where I live, at the time, was in other areas I moved on to other
things. If one wnated to learn C to contribute to the community what