John Altstadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yep, these auto tools are not very consistent. [...]
> I do have to say that in >20 years of designing large and small > embedded systems, I have never once felt the urge to use any > autotools. :-) Sure, for just your own tool, you don't need that. But if you want something that can be compiled on different OSes, where you can check for the prerequisite software, and want to offer the users some choices including that of the final installation location (configure --prefix), *something* like these tools is really handy. > On Gentoo, /usr/bin/autoconf is a soft link to a bash script which > tries to figure out which version of autoconf to actually execute. Well, I see the point in that idea, but guess it's hard to impossible to really do that. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
