On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> 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.
i agree.
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