Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] CDE imake branch and other fixes

2021-01-20 Thread Chase via cdesktopenv-devel
Lev, I just don't understand what the big issue with autotools is. We gutted a lot of the legacy OS code a few years ago (ultrix, unixware, even weird ones like uxpds), but if someone were to want these platforms back, I feel that using autotools would be an even better solution, since autotools

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] CDE imake branch and other fixes

2021-01-20 Thread Lev via cdesktopenv-devel
Hi Chase, It’s not that the autotools suite is bad per se, but my opinion is that they’re somewhat GNU-centric. For instance, trying to get it working on UnixWare (which still gets patches from Xinuos, and I wonder if they’d give a free license for CDE developers), it immediately errors out bec

Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] CDE imake branch and other fixes

2021-01-20 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021, Chase via cdesktopenv-devel wrote: Lev, I just don't understand what the big issue with autotools is. We gutted a lot of the legacy OS code a few years ago (ultrix, unixware, even weird ones like uxpds), but if someone were to want these platforms back, I feel that using