On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 10:11:36 -0500, Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:23:04 +0100 >>Oliver Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> [olsam@friday jack]$ autoconf >> >>Why are you runing autoconf? >> >>Did you read the installation instructions in the INSTALL file? >> >>Only package manitainers need to run autoconf etc. You should be running >>the configure script. Now go and read that INSTALL file. That's funny from what I've seen about some other projects is that autoconf/configure is pretty much SoP. It wasn't until I bumped into ardour and JACK that I found the autogen.sh. Okeydokey, I'll start using autogen.sh instead. > >JACK is not distributed with a configure script when it is retrieved >from CVS, which is typical of about 80% of CVS-based "releases". I >know that some people disagree with this, and believe that CVS should >include the configure script. I have yet to be convinced by this, but >I'm willing. I think it just depends on the audience you're trying to reach. Configure scripts make things a bit easier (especially with CVS only software), and if you can make things a bit easier, you might reach a wider audience than you normally would have. Not everybody (even Linux enthusiasts/users) have the time/patience/willpower to try and figure out how to really install the package. They just want to use it. ==================================================== Oliver Sampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliversampson.com
