Re: bbconf 1.0 is released.

[Kyle Donaldson]

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>  
> Funny, the projects not based on kproject seem to work fine.  Not every
> project
> I use forces the run of autotools -- not sure where that comes from.  I
> recently purchased the autoconf book and hope to get better at this.
> 

Hmm... I've never, ever, seen them work, even on projects that have nothing
to do with kproject. I have always gotten errors, on Slackware Linux (4.0,
7.0, 7.1, 8.0), FreeBSD (4.1.1, 4.3, 5.0-dev) and OpenBSD (2.9).

Maybe the autotools a relatively good idea. However, on projects that use
them, they should never be needed by anyone else but the developers. (Why
does ./configure insist on checking for them? The generation has already
been done, otherwise ./configure wouldn't exist!)

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Kyle Donaldson
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