-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/14/09 9:33 AM, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 03:28:25PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >> I don't think it's the *Linux* weenies. It is all the people that >> *THINK* they use the best configure tools available to make life for >> anyone on a system not exactly like theirs want to pull their hair > > Joerg Schilling. > > Ever try to build cdrtools? Make is so boring and old-fashioned, and his > replacement is SO much better...
As someone who works on a major packaging/porting project that is *not* on Linux, I feel your pain. Autotools are at least a known, if crappy, quantity. But just wait until you find someone's super-awesome "replacement" for them! Everyone knows that if you write your own, on Linux, with no other platform testing, it'll work fine everywhere! For example: dolt! http://dolt.freedesktop.org/ It's like libtool, but faster, and without all the pesky "compatibility!" It works fine on Linux, ship it! Oh, and while you're at it, let's have core GNOME packages start using it before anyone knows any better. GNOME's not supposed to be portable, anyways. Sure, in theory, it "falls back" to libtool on platforms it doesn't support. Too bad it thinks it supports things it doesn't. The only auto* replacement I've used that's halfway sane in it's multiplatform build support (although full of ugly-syntax hate) is CMake. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.12 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKhWrIUu+jZtP2Zf4RArVUAJwNdznK3l8Hv9xi4+hW8VqmZTLO9wCglIcl SgAn2MJwlPP5RWLIRjMl83A= =Owla -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
