RE: How many packages use autotools?

[Daniel Reed]

On 2003-09-25T23:32-0500, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
) > I use Autotools only on *NIX, I would expect that the view is different
) > when you look through the Windows.
) Nobody uses autoconf on Windows.  On Windows, people use Microsoft
) Installer or InstallShield.  Autoconf is exclusively for UNIX variants
) (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, SCO UNIX, AIX, etc.)

Pretty wild statement, especially considering the existance of the Cygwin
Net Release. As far as I am aware, all packages contained in it are built
using an autoconf-based ./configure script. Check out http://cygwin.com/.
They use their own customized install agent (http://cygwin.com/setup.exe)
for binary releases, which are downloaded as Slackware-style tarballs, and
standard source tarballs that are patched when need be for source installs.

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