On Thursday 15 November 2012, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie wrote:
> > external people regularly ask "but why you don't want to use
> > GNU/m4 GNU/make GNU/whatever ?"
>
> External people seem to ask weird questions.
>
> I just had to dig into autoconf/auto*
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie wrote:
> > external people regularly ask "but why you don't want to use GNU/m4
> > GNU/make
> > GNU/whatever ?"
> >
>
> External people seem to ask weird questions.
>
> I just had to dig
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> External people seem to ask weird questions.
>
> I just had to dig into autoconf/auto* because it seems to be a "must
> have" for a "portable" project.
Here's a simple configure replacement you could use for such projects:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote:
>> For all the GNU people, here is how a Makefile for hello.c should look like:
>> PROG= hello
>> NOMAN= yes
>> .include
>>
>> Yes, you're supposed to provide a man page hello.1 and
On Nov 15, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie wrote:
>> external people regularly ask "but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make
>> GNU/whatever ?"
>>
>
> External people seem to ask weird questions.
>
> I just had to dig into autoconf/aut
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 05:53:52PM +0100, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> For all the GNU people, here is how a Makefile for hello.c should look like:
> PROG= hello
> NOMAN= yes
> .include
>
> Yes, you're supposed to provide a man page hello.1 and remove the NOMAN line
> :)
Well, a portable Makefile for
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie wrote:
>> external people regularly ask "but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make
>> GNU/whatever ?"
>>
>
> External people seem to ask weird questions.
>
> I just had to dig into autoconf/aut
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Marc Espie wrote:
> external people regularly ask "but why you don't want to use GNU/m4 GNU/make
> GNU/whatever ?"
>
External people seem to ask weird questions.
I just had to dig into autoconf/auto* because it seems to be a "must
have" for a "portable" project.