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Thanks to all who replied. Intensive study of autobook and friends
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:04:32PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
3. Version differences: This is a legitamate gripe. The autotools don't
work nearly as wel as they could when developers
are using different versions. However, I see no way to easilly fix this.
They could have done more for
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:03:05PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote:
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:04:32PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
and automake provides a framework for creating makefiles with
common and useful targets.
Just stuffing autotools into an existing project just adds crud,
with no
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So I must ask why do people dislike the autotools? Are there really
problems that outweigh the benefits of being able to compile the program
on strange architectures with little
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:47:28PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
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Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So I must ask why do people dislike the autotools? Are there really
problems that outweigh the benefits of being able to
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Debian discourages creating Debian-native packages: This type of
packaging is only appropriate for the debian-specific packages, which
will never be useful in another distribution. [1] But creating it
for other distributions
Hi,
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
You might be looking for autoconf/automake (although it's a bit rusty,
and quite a few people loathe it, it's one working current standard we
have).
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
Policy describes how Debian packages should look. If you don't intend to get
the package into
Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Hi,
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
You might be looking for autoconf/automake (although it's a bit rusty,
and
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Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
I'm
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
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Hi,
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
You might be
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 07:00:12PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
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Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure why people don't like the autotools. They generally work
very well. The makefiles they make are even able to re-run the
autotools to update itself when needed! They generally work well.
They're painfully slow.
When using Autoconf, I have to
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Some convenient interface for doing whatever has to be done; in the case
of shell scripts, just provide a makefile or shscript, or python or
whatever you prefer which accepts PREFIX or DESTDIR or whatever..
It doesn't matter so much if it is #! /bin/sh
Hi,
The possible exception is in combination with gnulib, but this seems
inconsistent, since most people I've asked, who know about autofoo,
don't know what gnulib is. But I'd love to understand more than I do.
There are now projects that want to use autotools because it is
right, even
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Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
Debian discourages creating Debian-native packages: This type of
packaging is only appropriate for the
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote:
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Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for
general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form?
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you
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