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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc.
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On 2004-12-17 23:52, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> wrote:
> : system?  Autoconf (and automake/libtool) was, as originally
> : intended, designed to ease cross-platform portability.
>
> I'm starting to wonder.  But if I want to work on my new project at
> home, I'll need to come up with some kind of a system.  It'll be
> running on Linux at work, and BSD at home.

Hi Jonathon,

Autoconf and automake are not the only cross-platform makefile handling
tools.  The X11 distribution uses Imake.  You might want to take a look
at  Imake too, for multi-platform projects.