Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:08:20 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc. Message-ID: <41C6EAE4.10901@mukappabeta.de> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEMKEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEMKEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Keep it Simple Stupid. A Makefile that has options settible
> by editing with a text editor, and a nice readme file that tells
> what all the settible options are, is infinitely superior than
> all the configure crap. That is all that the RPM and ports
> creators want from you. And the end users don't even want to
> compile your stuff in the first place, let alone see it's
> install script.
I agree with that completely. Although I might add, that it is possible
to write well-behaved configure-scripts. It's just that it needs about
the same amount of cross-platform knowledge and testing than if you were
hardcoding the stuff in Makefiles.
--
Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de
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