Re: Automake 1.6 / Autoconf 2.53

[Jeff Bailey]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 01:54:25PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote:

> > I want to get the update done to the latest autotools.  My offer
> > still stands to port libtool to QNX if someone can provide me
> > access to a box.

> > Sam?  Alain?  What are your thoughts?

> On vacation 'til 15 July 8-)

Welcome back! =)

> But why is it so important to upgrade?  I could understand your
> rationale for inetutils, it was a mess but for mailutils ?

A few different reasons:

1) The different versions of automake don't co-exist, so I have to
keep reinstalling different versions depending on if I'm working on
mailutils or inetutils (or radar, or cron, etc...)

2) They've cleaned up much of the syntax, as Sergey had mentioned.
config.h.in is now completely generated from configure.[ac,in], so
it's easier to keep it all clean.

3) Support for per-executable and per-library compilation flags.  This
becomes more important to handle cleanly as we add more tools.

My offer still stands that if someone can provide me with a Qnx box to
ssh into, I'll tweak libtool and get the QNX behaviour in upstream.  I
spoke with Sam a bit about this, and it sounds like it will be really
easy.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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