On 23 Aug 2000, Morten Eriksen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> would you accept a _large_ patch to use the GNU Autoconf, Automake and
> Libtool trio of tools for configuration and build (in the style of the
> usual UNIX "configure; make install") instead of the current
> Makefile-based process?
If it worked, heck yeah! I messed with autoconf and automake way back
when I was first trying to come up with a semi-coherent build environment
with the Linux port. At first, I tried getting the Imakefiles to work
under Linux. Quicky gave up on that. Tried autoconf/automake for a while
but couldn't get it to behave. I blamed it on my lack of experience with
those two and defaulted back to using a build environment based on what we
often use internally at SGI. The makefiles I created weren't great, but
they worked. If you've got something better, I'd love to take a look at
it!
>
> I'm about to start that task, but I thought I'd check with you first
> if this is a good time for introducing changes of this magnitude to
> the CVS repository.
good luck and lemme know how it goes,
tom
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