Re: [chat] portable scripting

[Conrad Parker <conrad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:37:29PM +0000, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:42:31PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, invisible ink wrote:
> > >I kind of wondered about the concept of "we won't need them when we
> > >achieve world domination"... What on Earth would we be using? ANT?
>                                                                                 
> Well, automake will still be useful, but autoconf?  Not necessary.  My

bollocks

autoconf can detect a crapload of problems with missing stuff and
incorrect versioning to help diagnose build problems. the only problem
is that most people lame out and do nothing but the one-line PKG_CHECK
and then fail with a useless message like "eeeeek need gtk!!!" if it
doesn't find everything where it wanted it.

so, yeah, if your configure is lame and makes no attempt to diagnose
problems, you might as well not use it if you're building on an
FHS compliant system; but that problem is nothing to do with autoconf.

K.