-- resend / the first version got messed up --

Hello David,

David Ashley wrote:
> Moritz -
> 
> This is exactly what the configure script does. 
> It creates files including config.h, Makefile, 
> etc from the information in the configure.ac file 
> and dynamic testing of platform. All this depends 
> on the libtool, autoconf, automake and other GNU 
> tools being installed (and used) during the 
> configure process.
> 
> All this is too involved for just an email 
> explanation and it took me about 2 years 
> to become comforatable with and understand 
> the tools. But they are very powerful and 
> offer a complete solution to the multi-platform 
> makefile problem. There is a free book available 
> (PDF) called "GNU Autoconf, Automake, and 
> Libtool" that can help you get started but 
> it took me a long time to absorb and understand 
> the information. Just Google for the title 
> and you should find it.

I know. I learned this the hard way after AIX 6.1 was released.
I had to work with the authors of configure.guess, autoconf,
automake, libtool to get things working. These tools did not
recognize AIX 6.1 because of the major version change from 5 to 6.
This caused a fall back to an extremely old AIX version...


> If the Mac offer these tools you should be able to 
> make modifications to the existing configure.ac
> and Makefile.am files to add support for the Mac.
>
> David Ashley

Bye
  Rainer



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