Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:18:08 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc. Message-ID: <20041118101808.11092f21@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20041118160531.GA43779@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20041118160531.GA43779@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:05:31 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote: > > I'm starting to dabble in these self-contained self-building scripts > and tools and so on, like automake, autoconf, libtool, and so on. > > Are these the preferred way of doing things on FreeBSD, or is there a > better or more BSD-way of doing them? > > Some time ago, Terry Lambert suggested that tools such as imake were > vastly superior, and that the GNU tools were just to compensate for > the inconsistencies across Linux distros. He's probably right. :-) > I'd like to learn something that makes sense to learn because it is > practical, but at the same time, without sacrificing too much > portability. > > jm The main problem with the GNU auto* tools is their inconsistency across versions (which is why we still have several versions of each tool in the ports collection; not because this is A Good Thing, but because it's a necessity). A program that will build just fine with one version will generate errors or other problems with another version. Most annoying. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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