Dave Mielke <d...@mielke.cc> writes: > probably not, unless, of course, you can convince the above-mentioned person > as > to why it'd be worth the endeavour. It's entirely possible that he's just > stubbornly clinging to his old ways. There was a time, after all, when he > thought he didn't like autoconf. What do you see as the reasons that such a > transformation should be undertaken?
Hi Dave, First, I'll say that I'm not the best autotools advocate in the world. After all, I'm the guy who goes around telling people that a configure script is a wonderful place to put a trojan. It's 10000+ lines of auto-generated shell script that nobody ever reads. Turns out that someone actually did it, long before I thought of it. For instance, see here: <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-30.html>. Anyway, the brltty package on Gentoo has a few open bugs. The build system doesn't respect LDFLAGS, and the package cannot be built with parallel make. Converting to automake should get rid of both issues. I'll do what I can to fix them within the current structure, instead. -- Chris _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
