Calling autoconf in a spec.

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jul 4 15:14:11 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 03:07:14PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > I'd really love to be able to re-run current auto-tools on old
> > Makefile.am/configure.{in,ac} files and the results to work in all
> > cases, but right now that seems utopian to me.
> 
> Yet the competition ( http://www.cmake.org/ ) manages that very thing just 
> fine…

Has to be said that cmake just replaces one set of stupid with another
set of stupid.  The world is still waiting for a build system that is
widely available and doesn't suck.

Rich.

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