-- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
