Re: autoconf (was: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [ANNOUNCE] tlator-0.1 initial release)

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-09-18 15:59:13 +0100 wave++ <address@hidden> wrote:
>   - Relocated builds:
>   - Ability to avoid recursiviness:
>   - Ability to use standard make syntax:

These are possible with Make, in my experience.  Maybe easier with 
makepp, but it's hard to tell.

>   - The ability to setup arbitrarily complex rules, through perl
>     expressions.

This looks like a bug.  Likewise building makedepend into the core.

> Other systems that I tried so far and failed on me: cook, smake, GNU
> Make, (the one used on freetype - jam?), and some minor others that I
> don't remember about :P.

Oh well, whatever works for you.  I'll probably go look again at jam.  
I'm not sure any has enough advantage to be worth the cost, as with 
others.

Returning to the original point, most people on the list seem to 
appreciate that arch is an quantum leap on from CVS.  It's not clear 
that any of the alternative build tools have made a similar size leap 
forwards from Make.  They still try to solve essentially the same 
problem: construct a DAG and solve it.

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MJR/slef     My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.