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What you're mulling over is the precept for the autotools toolchain.. spare the next generation the same pain we bore :)
by _wmd 9y ago
What you're mulling over is the precept for the autotools toolchain.. spare the next generation the same pain we bore :)
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- carussell 9y agoAutotools is the opposite of what I'm suggesting. But maybe I'm missing some nuance in your comment. I think, though, that you may have read what I wrote, interpreted it as "new build tool", and immediately applied XKCD 927[1]. See my closing remarks in my last comment. 1. https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- adrianratnapala 9y agocarussell is suggesting the opposite of autotools in the sense of making a very restricted tool that only allows portable code (at least within the domain of that tool). By contrast, autotools tries to be expansive in many ways (1) it provides all kinds of bits and pieces of the toolchain, (2) it tries to support all systems by auto-generating build scripts using sniffed the system properties.
- bandrami 9y agoParticularly when it's used in combination with gnulib, which has an irritating tendency to build most of glibc if it doesn't recognize your build environment.