On Tuesday 11 September 2001 01:14 am, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:42:01PM -0700, Matthew Cline wrote:
> > This is a first stab at the configure stuff for Parrot.
> Damn, I knew I should have got that mail out last night. Sorry,
> Matthew.
Well, the autoconf/automake configure system does more than just generate a
config.h file. It also determines what compiler and linker flags to use, if
the needed libraries are present (with needed versions), takes care of stuff
like dependencies, and lets you maintain a simple make file which it
translates into a big-and-hairy makefile (22 lines for my Makefile.am versus
465 lines for the output Makefile). I have no clue as to how gcc does
automatic dependency checking, but I just have to add one line to
configure.in and it magically happens.
Is parrot going to have it's own makefile generator, or should it use
autoconf?
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| myself. -- Mark Twain
