site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 18:40, Andrew Gallatin<gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:

Mo McRoberts wrote:

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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 18:22, Andrew Gallatin<gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:

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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. -- http://nevali.net _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com