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newby question: to use or not to use ?
From: |
Joao Miguel Ferreira |
Subject: |
newby question: to use or not to use ? |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:30:31 +0100 |
Hello all,
I'm a beginner new on this list searching for enlightnment on the usage
of Autoconf (and friends).
I've just arrived to a new project were we have to maintain (debug,
upgrade, new features, etc) a certain amount of software which must be
executed (mostlly dynamic loaded libraries .so) in several UNIX/Linux
systems (HP-UX, Solaris and Linux).... and also VMS and also MS.
The code is some kind of communications middleware in C/C++. From it we
build some shared libs which are loaded by our client's application
developers.
I've used Autoconf/Automake and Libtool before but it was a very short
(but good) experience on Linux only systems.
Questions:
1- should I go ahead and try to unify development/maintenance around the
GNU Autotools for the UNIX/Linux systems (what I have know is a src dir
and CVS with a bunch of platform specific Makefiles ?!?!)
2- what pitfalls could there be (ex: could the source code we have be
such a mess that it would stop me from continuing, along the way ?;
could something compiled with gcc not be compatible with client's
applications compiled with some specific compiler ?;)
3- Are the autotools/gcc 'smart enough' to cross-compile correctlly to
each of the targets; or maybe I should just do a ./configure in the
target system and in that case would configure find the native/local
C/CPP compilers correctlly
My feeling is that 'porting' to Autotools is good and will show profits
in the future, but my boss won't let me do it unless I find more
'measurable' advantages...
can anyone help me get the full picture here ? maybe point me to some
good readings on this ? maybe share previous experience in similar
situations ?
I appreciate it a lot.
Thank you all.
Joao
- newby question: to use or not to use ?,
Joao Miguel Ferreira <=
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Baurzhan Ismagulov, 2007/07/07
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Benoit SIGOURE, 2007/07/07
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Joao Miguel Ferreira, 2007/07/09
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Benoit SIGOURE, 2007/07/09
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Keith MARSHALL, 2007/07/09
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Benoit SIGOURE, 2007/07/09
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Thomas Dickey, 2007/07/09
- Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Keith MARSHALL, 2007/07/10
Re: newby question: to use or not to use ?, Joao Miguel Ferreira, 2007/07/09