On Tuesday, 11 בJanuary 2011 16:35:08 Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Re: Die GNU autotools":
> > m4 is very vile.
> If I would write it myself, the language I would choose is Tcl - because
> of its "{ ... }" quoting making it easy to include verbatim shell blurbs.
Nadav:
1. In m4 the quote characters are user defined. In very old autoconf
implementations, they used the default (a ` and a ')
Modern autoconf uses by default a more visible pair
of quote characters (a [ and a ] )
2. Actullay, because m4 is just a macro processor, anything in your
configure.ac file which is not an autoconf macro *IS* a verbatim
shell script -- the only need for delimited shell blurbs is when they
are passed as parameters to macros (indeed it's the common use
case).
Shlomi:
3. While I can see the "learning curve" problem you point to,
I cannot see how the CMake syntax is any improvement
over the widely known bourne-shell syntax for writing tests.
For standard tests that aleady have prepare macros, the syntax
should be nice in almost any language you pick.
Predefined example from autoconf (for libsdl):
AM_PATH_SDL
or if you want a minimum version:
AM_PATH_SDL([1.2])
And than in your Makefile.in (or Makefile.am if you want automake)
simply add $(SDL_CFLAGS) to compile commands and $(SDL_LIBS)
to link commands.
Night'
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