On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:05:31 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm starting to dabble in these self-contained self-building scripts > and tools and so on, like automake, autoconf, libtool, and so on. > > Are these the preferred way of doing things on FreeBSD, or is there a > better or more BSD-way of doing them? > > Some time ago, Terry Lambert suggested that tools such as imake were > vastly superior, and that the GNU tools were just to compensate for > the inconsistencies across Linux distros. He's probably right. :-) > I'd like to learn something that makes sense to learn because it is > practical, but at the same time, without sacrificing too much > portability. > > jm The main problem with the GNU auto* tools is their inconsistency across versions (which is why we still have several versions of each tool in the ports collection; not because this is A Good Thing, but because it's a necessity). A program that will build just fine with one version will generate errors or other problems with another version. Most annoying. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- "In Unix veritas" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
