[Oops, I forgot to Cc: the list when replying to Jan.]
* Jan Prikryl
> Another question: some time ago, Morten Eriksson from SIM thought
> about providing an automake/autoconf support for the Inventor code
> [...]
I'm sorry I never got around to completing this, I had made it through
libimage and 3/4 or so of the way through libInventor when other tasks
at hand got higher priority for me.
> ... I suppose it is not a trivial thing to set up, and probably
> better done by a single developer, but if I could help somehow (the
> current makefile system drives me nuts sometimes).
I discovered a couple of things, though:
I think the first thing the SGI maintainers need to do is to split up
the single monolithic CVS module into several pieces. One for
libimage, one for libInventor, one for libInventorXt, one for the
tools, one for the examples, etc etc.
Before this is done, completely converting to
autoconf/automake/libtool for configure and build would probably make
the setup complex enough that it would look like a lot more mess than
the current Makefile-based build.
Another important aspect is that the current releases of autoconf
(v2.13, I think) and automake (v2.14?) is getting really long in the
teeth and is a far cry from matching the state of these tools fresh
from CVS. So it might be better to hold off a bit anyhow, until
autoconf v2.50 and the next automake release happens.
Regards,
Morten
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