Hi Jan, Am 23.07.2018 um 22:04 schrieb Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz>: > > From both a sysadmin and user perspective, I find the GNU autotools > amd CMake a major annoyance. Would you please consider doing what e.g. > http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/configure does? > > A simple, hand written shell script, with a set of obvious > {test,compat}-*.c helpers. No dependency on anything, orders > of multitude smaller and faster then a auto*-generated configure.
No - please! Handwritten configure scripts are the worst nightmare for downstream packages as each package uses its own way to configure flags for compilation, linkage, install relocation etc. This makes packaging stuff hard as it requires specific adjustments of build procedures. I maintain roughly 1600 packages and this would not be possible when there were no standards. Autotools is far from perfect, but it is a standard and after you figured something out it works for hundreds of builds in the same way. Best regards — Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896 _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
