On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:15:57PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Brian May wrote: > > Regardless, I personally like autoconf, automake, and libtool. It makes > > it easier to have a consistant and full featured build interface to my > > programs. > > It depends on your needs I guess. I find automake useless for anything > that is not trivial. The day I replaced the dpkg buildsystem with a > simple nice Makefile system that no longer used automake was an > extremely good day. I find automake extremely effective at handling complex scenarios. It all depends on whether you actually know what you're doing or not. Looking at the Makefile.am's at around dpkg 1.4, I would not be at all surprised if these broke. Especially since the distributed tarball doesn't contain any Makefile.in's - that's *always* wrong. GIGO. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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