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2000.04.19 13:13 "Re: autoconf based configure", by Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 18 Apr 100, Kevin D. Quitt wrote: > > I am very much against autoconf. It assumes the entire world is a > hosted environment and barfs if the linker doesn't assume there's > something special about main(). As a result, I ended up doing ten > times as much work to port the package than if it had just been > a straightforward make file and C code. Autoconf would be targeted specifically to Unix/Linux and Cygwin users. There would still be generic Makefiles to support other environments. Autoconf does include support for cross-configuration, but this may assume that an ANSI C compiliant main() exists (I don't know). For embedded OSs like VxWorks you would want to use a traditional Makefile as the starting point. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen