On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Tom Lees wrote: > > 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! > > Well, I agree that it is now unmanageable. automake+libtool do have > some relevance to porting, but its probably better to cook up your own > system. automake can be useful (especially for real GNU projects, I > think), but in the case of dpkg, it was probably a mistake. For me, it > was just a hacking exercise - feel free to get rid of it.
You should take alook at my latest make system, it does everything I want at least. The only limitation is that is is gnu make specific. If you read around you will find that 90% of the people who try to port dpkg complain about the make system. > a) The speed impact is too great > b) There are better similar tools available I don't know, I looked around alot for other tools and I didn't find anything that was significantly different. It was all write your makefiles in a meta language and convert to make and hope for the best :< > libtool doesn't seem to be being maintained enough to offer useful > features to us at the moment either. Libtools big problem is that it is SO SLOW and it lakes a number of rather important features. I can see how it would be usefull but I tend to belive it is solving the wrong problem. Jason
