On Fri 15 Apr 2022, Chibby Bromanson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 02:20:25PM +0200, Wolf wrote: > > On 2022-04-15 08:51:50 +0000, Hadrien Lacour wrote: > > > > > > Some implementation details: do you really need autohell when the only > > > thing > > > you use it for is to detect the presence of sys/xattr.h? That's only a > > > few lines > > > of sh calling cc to do the same. > > > Personally, I use POSIX sh to "augment" make with the usual stuff like > > > [un]install or what GNU make provides. > > > > Configure script provides lot more then detection though. I have yet to > > see a hand written make providing support for --program-prefix or > > --program-transform-name for example. For packaging software, these > > additional features are useful from time to time. > > This was the decision that I struggled with the most to be completely > honest. In the end though, this still ensures maximum portability and > greatly increases your chances of some kind soul packaging it up for > various platforms.
Speaking as a package maintainer. I actually breathe a sigh of relief when I see a good old plain Makefile as I know that I am not about to have my understanding of obscure Autotools internals challenged in case something goes awry.
