On 12/01/11 15:49, Nadav Har'El wrote:
Actually, the Linux kernel doesn't use autotools;-)
It assumes that the compilation system is a familiar GNU/Linux setup, and
won't work at all on other Unix versions, C compilers which aren't recent
versions of gcc, and so on.
I think there's a slightly different reason for that. Autoconf works
well when most of the customizations required can be automatically
detected by the configure script. For the Linux kernel, this is not the
case. The kernel has zero runtime dependencies (and very few compile
time dependencies), and so no automatic configuration is required at
all. Instead, it has a huge amount of user configurations required, far
too much to be passed as "--with" and "--enable". As such, I think it
justified that it does not go for autoconf, but rather a menu based
system stored in a text file.
Shachar
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