Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
- Subject: Re: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and 64-bit applications
- From: Mo McRoberts <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:56:39 +0100
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 18:40, Andrew Gallatin<email@hidden> wrote:
> Mo McRoberts wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 18:22, Andrew Gallatin<email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nice sentiment, but none of the alternatives to
>>>> autoconf+autoconf+(g)libtool have proven themselves to be anything but
>>>
>>> Did you mean automake, rather than the second autoconf?
>>
>> Oh, yes—fingers/brain not appropriately coupled, it’d seem!
>
> OK, then I disagree with you 66%. IMHO, autoconf is a necessary evil,
> but automake and libtool are just pure evil that do nothing
> but increase obfuscation and frustration.
libtool is the most useful of the lot—dealing with the arcane and
entirely propriety requirements for building dynamic libs on every
platform (especially accounting for dependencies between libraries
properly) is something best left to somebody who has the opportunity
to focus on them, rather than the app developer, who inevitably gets
it wrong for many platforms.
automake has its uses, too; primarily because it integrates with
libtool nicely, but also because it manages dependency tracking
transparently, and deals with recursion properly. It’s perhaps
overkill for a single-dir utility, but for a large cross-platform
project it’s fairly essential.
M.
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