On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:03:04AM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > * I did say it was a _difficult_ change > > * I was not planning on doing it by hand - rather making a tool that > would use Imakefiles as input > > * My take on it was that at the very least it would be an interesting > exercise in using autoconf. I have converted a few of my other projects > to it and things do not look that bad.
The approach I've been thinking about for a while is to replace as much of the .cf data as possible with auto-generated data, and then have imake do it's usual thing. That would give a balance between automatic build configuration and compatibility with existing Imakefiles. I think it would also have the advantage of being a doable task. Imake already does some basic auto-detection, but it's limited and it does it every time it's run. When building something large like the XFree86 tree, it'd be better if that auto-detection was done once and the cached data used for the rest of the tree. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
