I don't intend to engage in yet another 9fans flame war. I do not
argue with your analysis or proposal. However, it's based on considerable
hindsight and experience that wasn't available when autotools started.
Additionally, systems in that time period were changing continually.
So it was not alwa
On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 09:24:57AM -0600, arn...@skeeve.com wrote:
> So, the history is more than this.
>
> Larry Wall's Configure (capital C) for rn and Perl was the first step
> at a shell script to examine system features and generate a config.h.
Using a shell script to generate commands to co
So, the history is more than this.
Larry Wall's Configure (capital C) for rn and Perl was the first step
at a shell script to examine system features and generate a config.h.
It was inspirational for autoconf, but autoconf doesn't use any of
its code, as far as I know.
Autoconf was designed to so
