On November 6, 2013, Charles Curley wrote: > Autotools is reputed to be an unholy mess, and very difficult to
> maintain. I have never been able to understand how the whole tool chain > works. The lack of documentation didn't help either. Well, I'll agree on the documentation point. Documentation for the programs (beyond the miniscule man pages I can sometimes find) would be most helpful. > There are alternatives, such as scons. Forgive me be a newb on this one, but what the heck is scons, and where do I find out more about it? :) If it will make my configure and Makefile files for me so I don't have to handle the whole process manually then I'm curious about it. I love the ./configure && make && make install sequence, since it automates so much, but I will agree that using autotools to make the control files (configure.in, Makefile.in, etc...) is a pain in the A__ at times. --- Dan On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Charles Curley < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 15:38:50 -0700 > Daniel Fussell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Whats wrong with the gnu toolchain? I'll admit that I write my > > makefiles by hand, and recently I've been doing more writing in VHDL, > > so I'm somewhat lacking in experience. Whats wrong with autotools > > and gcc in particular? > > Autotools is reputed to be an unholy mess, and very difficult to > maintain. I have never been able to understand how the whole tool chain > works. The lack of documentation didn't help either. > > There are alternatives, such as scons. > > -- > > The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, > and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be > violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, > supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the > place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. > -- U.S. Const. Amendment IV > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
