On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Outside Unix this is needlessly complex and completely unnecessary, > >> not to mention that it doesn't work outside a shell requirement. > >> Wget tries to help by allowing you to completely avoid Autoconf and > >> simply provide your own Makefile and config.h. This is how Windows > >> Makefiles work. > > > > sure. but don't forget that autoconf has been ported on many non-unix > > platforms (cygwin, win32, etc...). > > Sure, but all of those "cheat" by providing a full Unix-like > environment -- sh, sed, grep, awk, cc, the works. Without all of > those (and more), a standard Autoconf script has about 0% chance of > ever working.
i agree. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deep Space 6 - IPv6 with Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it