On 2/20/06, Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on upgrading the linux port now. For this I feel I really > should use autoconf. > Are there any strong feelings on adding autoconf support for building.
My personal experiences with build software with autoconf, even on mainstream Linux distros (Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu) is negative which means that I failed to build it more often than I succeded. Sometimes autoconf version that I had was too old, sometimes too new, sometimes depended m4 macros were not installed but most of the time I would just get incomprehensible, impossible to debug error message. Autoconf is better than nothing but I would personally prefer a hand-written Makefile. Common belief is that only autoconf/automake etc. is able to support building under wide variety of Unixes but projects like e.g. ffmpeg show that it's possible to write a makefile and a custom configure.sh script that works. -- kjk _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.opendarwin.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
