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Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf
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Alexandre Oliva |
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Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf |
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10 Apr 2001 18:03:24 -0300 |
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On Apr 10, 2001, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <address@hidden> writes:
Russ> Is there any way that the driver scripts could be generated
Russ> using M4 so that all the portability junk can be hidden, just
Russ> like autoconf lets the end user do for the configure script?
> That's correct, and that's what Autom4ke is for. That's why
s/m4ke/m4te/
> m4sugar.m4 and m4sh.m4 were created. But again, Autoconf is
> addressing portability issues on the user side, not on the maintainer
> side.
Why not address them on the maintainer side too? Why not have our own
dog food? :-)
AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT (or however it's spelled these days :-) rules!
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- Re: Release next week?, (continued)
Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Paul Eggert, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Paul Eggert, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/10
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf,
Alexandre Oliva <=
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/11
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Alexandre Oliva, 2001/04/11
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/12
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/04/20
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Akim Demaille, 2001/04/23
- Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Gary V . Vaughan, 2001/04/26
Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Guido Draheim, 2001/04/10
Re: Perl vs Scheme vs ML vs ... for autoconf, Russ Allbery, 2001/04/10
Re: Release next week?, Lars J. Aas, 2001/04/10