On 2005-04-05, at 01:28, Nix wrote:
On 4 Apr 2005, Marcin Dalecki stipulated:I don't agree with the argument presented by Geert Bosch. It's even more difficult to
muddle through the atrocities of autoconf/automake to find the places where compiler
switches get set in huge software projects
What's so hard about
find . \( -name 'configure.*' -o -name Makefile.am \) -print | xargs grep CFLAGS
anyway?
Tha fact the you actually *seldomly* have the precise version
of autoconf/automake/perl/gawk installed on the host you wont to reproduce the
THRE stages to get a hand and Makefile.
I could turn the question back: What's so hard about grepping the source?
I think this is a straw man. Manipulating CFLAGS is just *not that hard*.
In practice it IS.
A few minutes will suffice for all but the most ludicrously byzantine project (and I'm not talking `uses automake', here, I'm talking `generates C code in order to compute CFLAGS to use when compiling other code'.)
Thus by your definition most projects are byzantine. glibc, tetex ans so on...
