from:"Dirk"

My autoconf replacement

2007-02-13 Thread Dirk

wn projects. The attached example already detects a hell of a lot different libs, header files, etc. All you need to edit is configure.in. I think everything will speak for itself. THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO DEPENDENCIES EXCEPT SOME WORKING C COMPILER. (It is prepared for Windows sup

Re: OT: cross platform tests? SF compile farm is dead

2007-02-18 Thread Dirk

Guido Draheim wrote: > https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=665363 >> As of 2007-02-08, SourceForge.net Compile Farm service >> has been officially discontinued. > >> We feel that our resources are best used at this time >> in improving other parts of our existing SourceForge.net >> se

Re: OT: cross platform tests? SF compile farm is dead

2007-02-18 Thread Dirk

Guido Draheim wrote: > Dirk schrieb: >> Guido Draheim wrote: >>> https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=665363 >>>> As of 2007-02-08, SourceForge.net Compile Farm service >>>> has been officially discontinued. >>>> We feel that our

just one of a million reasons why autoconf is a worthless piece of shit

2008-03-16 Thread Dirk

aclocal.m4 file. You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/. ./autogen.sh: line 47: intltoolize: command not found There... bullshit spewing autoconf again... can someone explain to me what's so "auto" abou

just one of a million reasons why autoconf is a worthless piece of shit (2)

2008-03-16 Thread Dirk

My point is that autoconf is such a bloated, self-important, wet-script-kiddie-dream that is DOESN'T make the build process easier... It rather encourages people to write their own config scripts... So the whole thing has lost its meaning...

Re: Peace

2008-03-17 Thread Dirk

Stewart Dean wrote: I am continually astounded by self-righteousness in the tech world. There is so much all of us either don't know (to say nothing of what we don't know that we don't know) or have bunged up in our time, that we should be um temperate in what we say. We all have plen

Re: just one of a million reasons why autoconf is a worthless piece of shit (2)

2008-03-18 Thread Dirk

Paul Smith wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 15:37 +0100, Dirk wrote: I HAVE written something that works better than autoconf... in the real world... that requires only a installed C compiler... and is so easy it makes autoconf look like a project whose purpose is to harm open source development

Re: just one of a million reasons why autoconf is a worthless piece of shit

2008-03-18 Thread Dirk

John Calcote wrote: Dirk, I once thought as you did (albeit without quite so much volatility). I've since come to realize that autoconf and the rest of the autotools are really quite amazing. The problem most people have with the autotools is that they exist at the 10,000 foot

config.log

2002-11-16 Thread Dirk

when i probe for byteswap.h in config.log appears #define HAVE_BYTESWAP_H that is great! but how do i include this precious information into the compile process.. dont tell me #include "config.log" or i'll unsubscribe at once!!! Thanks, Dirk