On 02/ 6/12 09:09 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
On 2012-02-06 09:33, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
I think trying to replicate autotools would be just silly.
That's what PARI tried and they are probably the spkg with the *most*
patches to the configuration system.
More fool them.
SCons is another attempt at a build system, but I was not keen on it. I noticed
another Sage developer removed it from some package, as he too found it
frustrating.
I think autoconf/automake is very convenient for users, though it is not the
easiest program for developers.
I pretty much re-wrote the "prereq" script from scratch, as that was written to
use autoconf, but whoever wrote it did not read the autoconf documentation. They
just started coding, which is very unwise with autoconf.
Dave
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