On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:15 AM, John Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got to agree libtool is evil, it causes more breakage than anything it > purports to fix. Autoconf is a great idea, but a horrible implementation > because of it's insane complexity and utterly unreadable machine generated > code. It's wonderful when it works, but pure hell when it doesn't. I've > found myself in autotool hell more often than I would care to remember. > > However, at the moment I don't know what a viable alternative to autoconf > would be. I suppose if you believe you won't ever need per OS configuration > it's not necessary, but are we at that point of compatibility?
FWIW, I've been migrating my project (tcpreplay) from Auto* to Cmake. It's a huge win if you're targeting Win32 (which I know freeradius isn't), but I've been pretty happy with it under various flavors of UNIX as well. Syntax is sane, it's well maintained and good active community. Unfortunately, the U in UNIX doesn't stand for "unified". -- Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/ - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero" - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
