> Op 22 feb. 2015, om 14:56 heeft Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> het 
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> On 22 February 2015 at 11:02, Diego Roversi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 15:51:19 +0200
>> Siarhei Siamashka <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Regarding packaging, there are some pull requests on github, which try
>>> to add autotools support. I have quickly looked at these patches and did
>>> not quite like them. They add autogenerated files to git, which is not a
>>> great idea. And also they don't seem to really solve the problem of the
>>> need to use two toolchains at once (part of the build needs to be done
>>> by the compiler from the host machine, and part of the build needs to
>>> be done by an arm crosscompiler).
>> 
>> In debian, packages are compiled with a native compiler on a native 
>> platform, so it's not really a problem. BTW I think that adding autotools 
>> support to trivial C program can be considere bike shedding (ihmo).
> 
> And any self-respecting distro has build time dependency handling so
> you don't really have to detect libraries since you will have them
> installed by the package build system.

Taking that argument to its logical conclusion means that autotools, pkg-config 
and friends aren't needed anymore because the distro will solve it for you.

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