Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Harlan" == Harlan Stenn <address@hidden> writes:

Harlan> While (IMO) it "did better" than autoconf for quite a few
Harlan> years, I bailed on it several years ago because it was not
Harlan> suitable (at that time) for srcdir != builddir, and that was
Harlan> something I needed Badly.  To my knowledge, it still does not
Harlan> handle srcdir != builddir.

I actually did a lot of work on metaconfig to make this work.  That
was in 1996.  Some of my changes were incorporated, I think.  Some may
not have been (I also changed MakeMaker to allow this; I think those
patches were dropped).

Tom