On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:24:33AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
>
> Note that using C++ kind of defeats the whole purpose of using
> autoconf :-) Autoconf is not even very happy about using ANSI C,
> because it's not available everywhere.
This really doesn't make much sense. Autoconf is a very useful tool,
regardless of the language you are writing in. Of the autoconf
programs in debian, what percentage of them would compile without an
ANSI C compiler? Not that many. In fact, there aren't any K&R C
compilers that even run on Debian (AFAIK).
Limiting the autotools only to those systems that require the absolute
in portability would be a mistake.
sam th
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