I agree with the big D. compiling analog was not difficult on either linux or solaris because of the simplicity of the tool setup. this is not the case with so many tools that I want to run on solaris 10 sparc, it is so much work because the Unix world has so fractured in the last five years... stop the madness- leave the tool perfectly supremely generic! please?
On 9/4/07, Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:59:04 Per Jessen wrote: > > > > Dima, should we ever get that far, don't feel obliged to use the > > autoconf'ed version. > > Heh. I hope you'll be kind enough to give me the choice -- most of them > are "run ./configure or go lose yourself in twisty maze of little shell > scripts, all alike". > > The point I'm trying to make, autoconf, like most other goodies, brings in a > whole new level of complexity and a new source of failures. The smart thing > to do is to carefully consider the actual (not perceived) benefits vs. the > costs. With autoconf the main cost is well known build failures on non-GNU > platforms/with non-GNU build tools (where analog currently builds just > fine -- last I checked). > > Dima > -- > Dimitri Maziuk > Programmer/sysadmin > BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: > | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help > | > | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html > | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives > | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general > +------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -- -Kevin Find me in Google Earth: 29.517567 -95.059033 Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. - Andrew V. Mason aych tee tee pee colon slash slash texascreasons dot homedns dot org +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
