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Re: converting netkit to autoconf?
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: converting netkit to autoconf? |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:41:50 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: "David A. Holland" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 01:28:51 +0100 (BST)
>
> (1) it's a canonical example of the principle that software is almost
> inevitably written using tools that are just not quite adequate for
> the job. autoconf is written in m4. This is a big liability.
You say poTAYto, I say poTAHto.
> (2) autoconf is, or was (but last I looked it hadn't changed)
> completely undocumented. That is, there's a lot of random
> documentation, but the important part (documentation of the test
> library) was completely missing.
Not sure what you're referring to here. The latest Autoconf has
documentation for the autotest stuff, if that's what you're talking about.
> When configure scripts screw up, which is more common than you
> probably realize, the user ought to be able to edit the results by
> hand *in one place*.
It's in config.status. Admittedly it could be easier to read (perhaps
we could put that in our TODO list), but it's all on one place. Edit
config.status and then run it.
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Dan Kegel, 2002/08/01
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, David A. Holland, 2002/08/11
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Dan Kegel, 2002/08/12
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Bruce Korb, 2002/08/12
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Russ Allbery, 2002/08/12
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Bruce Korb, 2002/08/12
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Russ Allbery, 2002/08/12
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Peter Eisentraut, 2002/08/13
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Russ Allbery, 2002/08/13
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Paul Eggert, 2002/08/13
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Bruce Korb, 2002/08/13
- Re: converting netkit to autoconf?, Tom Tromey, 2002/08/16