-->"Steve" == Steve Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> How we can sidestep autohell?
autohell is now a 3-headed beast: automake, autoconf and libtool, where some of those are actually multiple components. automake is PERL thing that takes a "simplified" Makefile.am, and emits a Makefile.in. its added value is understanding how to drive libtool, and the creation of Makefiles with standard targets. autoconf is a Bourne-ish Shell script and a suite of m4 macros. it processes various m4 *.in files to produce (at minimum) a Bourne Shell configure script, and a set of Makefiles. its added value is two-fold: a series of HAVE_FOO macros used to compile different code fragments, and various other variables substituted into the Makefiles to actually compile and link different files. libtool is another Bourne-ish Shell script that encodes knowledge of how shared libraries are built using different linker and runtime-linker variants. i suspect that they probably require bash, GNU m4 and GNU sed. automake needs PERL. those porting Python, etc, must have dealt with this somehow? d
