Re: autoconf is broken in various ways

[Russ Allbery]

Didier Verna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Tromey wrote:

>> I'm curious to know what is so complex about it.
>> Is it something intrinsic to XEmacs?
>> Or a quirk of evolution?
>> Or something else?

> It's mainly because autoconf has been in use in XEmacs for a long time,
> and the level of customization we want|like|need is|was not available
> without understanding and hacking autoconf's internals. This is not
> specific to XEmacs as we all know. However, XEmacs goes rather deep in
> that matter ...

It also does things like use cpp to pre-process Makefiles, probably
because it dates from before automake.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>