On Thursday 01 March 2007 08:49, Dan McMahill wrote: > which means that 3rd party packaging systems which might > build things automatically have to have their own custom ways > of configuring the tool. Granted it is probably not hard, > but it just adds up for those trying to maintain a large > number of packages.
That's the only reason gnucap uses autotools. I hacked together a system about 20 years ago that works very well as a development environment, but it doesn't have the targets that the packagers need. When I said "been thinking of making a new one" I mean to enhance my old one to add the features packagers need, with an autotools compatible interface, so you can still do "./configure;make". I think I can copy the missing parts from autotools, then do some cleanup. Then it's done. It would consist of a configure script that is the same for all projects, and an enhanced "Make3" (from my old system), so it creates no new dependencies. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
