Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-16 Thread Stefan Fritsch
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*

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandre Ratchov
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

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Matthias Kilian
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:

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Andres Perera
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

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Franco Fichtner
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

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Marc Espie
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

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Mike Belopuhov
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

Re: ##@!#@# gnu tools

2012-11-15 Thread Reyk Floeter
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.