Re: [article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

2006-03-24 Thread Ed Hartnett
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi John, > > * John Calcote wrote on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:23:27AM CET: >> >>http://jcalcote.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/autotools > > | My personal gripe with autotools is the stunning lack of good > | documentation for the high-level concepts of

Re: [article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

2006-03-24 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi John, * John Calcote wrote on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:23:27AM CET: > >http://jcalcote.wordpress.com/2006/03/24/autotools | My personal gripe with autotools is the stunning lack of good | documentation for the high-level concepts of this set of tools. If you are looking for a newer overvi

Re: [article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

2006-03-23 Thread John Calcote
Enrico,   Interesting article. I disagree with your sentiment that autotools is poorly designed. Poorly documented perhaps, but it's actually very well designed. The reason that feature tests are used instead of platform feature databases is that feature tests will work on as-yet-unknown platform

[article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

2006-03-22 Thread Enrico 'nekrad' Weigelt
Hi folks, here's a little article I wrote about an approach for encapsulating platform dependent stdc-lib fixes (ie. some platforms have broken string handling, etc) behind pkg-config. It is mostly directed on autoconf (It is the one I have most of my daily trouble with), but of course the appr