On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:47:28PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>So I must ask why do people dislike the autotools? Are there really > >>problems that outweigh the benefits of being able to compile the program > >>on strange architectures with little difficulty? Remember that the > >>autotools let one compile the program in the same way on a GNU/Linux > >>system, Cygwin, BSD, and a large number of commercial unixes. Problem #1 is Bad Documentation.
There is also a large amount of indirection involved to get things to happen just the way you want them to. A simple program is pretty simple. However I had a lot of difficultly getting the thing to, say, generate a file nicely. It is now doing it but it sure took a long time to work out. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
