Hello All;
Just a vote that I think it would still be cool if analog had a
./configure script. I know Steven's reasons against, (I asked him
about this same point about a year ago), and I understand them, but
it would still be very useful to have a ./configure script -- it's so
nice to have './configure --help' to summarize the build options for
you, and to be able to configure them that way at build time; and
there are many things in analog that I'd like to configure that way
instead of through environment variables passed to make or by
modifying headers/.cfg files/etc.
In my humble opinion, ./configure scripts aren't _just_ about
factoring out platform dependencies -- they're also about having a
well designed, understood and standard way to configure and build
software on unix, even without platform differences to worry about.
OK I've said my peace/piece.
joshr
At 5:53 PM +0100 10/27/99, Stephen Turner wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Simon McClenahan wrote:
>>
>> Have you considered using GNU's autoconf to provide a configuration and
>> Makefile generator with the Analog distribution?
>>
>
>Yes, but I don't really see the point. It would really only be used on
>Unix, and it compiles out-of-the-box on Unix anyway. There is almost no
>platform-specific code at least among Unix versions (and very little at
>all).
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