Re: HATE

[Roger Leigh]

Dirk <address@hidden> writes:

> I subscribed to take the chance and let everybody know (because it seems
> that I'm the first one to do this) that
>
> autoconf

You have the wrong mailing list, you realise...

> It's completely
> demotivating to think about writing a new configure.in knowing that it
> will most certainly bitch around about m4-bla here and ooops-there.

Actually, it's called configure.ac.  configure.in is deprecated.

> Just look at debian they have now 3(!) different autoconf versions
> because one works better or worse than the other.

Actually, there are two versions.  There's autoconf (the current
version) and autoconf2.13 (and old version provided for backward
compatibility).  You should normally only need the autoconf package.

> I know this is hardly a "constructive critque", but man, how much does
> you shit suck. It will take some time until I can give "constructive
> critiques" about autoconf again.

You didn't give any actual examples to show why it "sucks", so it's
not possible to take your mail too seriously.


I've used autoconf in all my projects over the last 4-5 years, and
I've not had huge problems, other than working my way around the odd
bug.  Migrating from 2.13 to 2.50 was a pain, but mainly due to my use
of autoconf internals (and I also needed to port a decent amount of
custom macros).


-- 
Roger Leigh

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