> > --- karderio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [3] Autotools (automake, autoconf etc) to me seems >> like a rather bad >> solution to a not necessarily so complex problem. I >> started hacking on a >> project [4] a few months ago, and for the time >> being, I'd estimate, >> without exaggeration, that every hour I spend >> hacking C code that adds a >> new feature I spend up to five hours messing with >> make, most of the time >> getting nowhere. I'm feel I'm going to have to spend >> days reading up and >> learning autotools, as I just can't handle messing >> about, copying code >> from other makefiles only to get the nice helpful >> sort of error message >> "script doesn't work - try again". Frustrating, >> especially as autotools >> work is particularly unrewarding to me.
Yes, you really do need to read something about the tools. I try to describe some of the basics here: http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake.shtml Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
