Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Outside Unix this is needlessly complex and completely unnecessary, >> not to mention that it doesn't work outside a shell requirement. >> Wget tries to help by allowing you to completely avoid Autoconf and >> simply provide your own Makefile and config.h. This is how Windows >> Makefiles work. > > sure. but don't forget that autoconf has been ported on many non-unix > platforms (cygwin, win32, etc...).
Sure, but all of those "cheat" by providing a full Unix-like environment -- sh, sed, grep, awk, cc, the works. Without all of those (and more), a standard Autoconf script has about 0% chance of ever working.
