On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > Unfortunately I suppose people will complain at me too much if I do > this and drop some of the changes, eg the i18n support (which has a > good reason for being there). But I am seriously tempted to throw > away automake and perhaps libtool too.
I would throw away automake and libtool. Tom also cursed me with the same system that he put on dpkg and I must say it's the most painfull experience.. Automake is just a pathetic tool, I can't belive so many people use it and even like it! Recently I got sufficiently annoyed and striped all of it and rewrote all the make stuff in plain jane gmake - the total size of all the new make files is about -HALF- of ONE of the automake generated makefiles. Go figure. On a 486 you'll find that by throwing away libtool + automake you will get about a 1.5 - 2 times speed increase in compile times. Also don't forget to run configure with --disable-static, that alone will drop half the build time! Gettext also seems to be in some sort of flux and has problems of it's own :< Personally I would just drop all the crap you don't like, you'll end up being more productive in the long run. Jason
