[Tfug] autoconf replacement?

[Brian Masur]

Scrap OSX, MacOS, and if you really must keep trying apple hardware, run 
Gentoo, they seem to be insane about apple hardware for some (as you said) 
obtuse reason.  I wish they were more onto x86 hardware, because that's 
where it's at.


>From: John Gruenenfelder <johng at as.arizona.edu>
>Reply-To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>To: Tucson Free UNIX Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>Subject: [Tfug] autoconf replacement?
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:49:12 -0700
>
>For you programmers out there...
>
>What, if anything, do you use as an autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool)
>replacement?  I've got a decent sized program that uses all three tools 
>which
>has helped it run without too much hassle on a number of other *NIX 
>machines
>as well as OSX.
>
>But, I find the tools to be overly complex and with poor documentation.  In
>order to have it all behave properly on OSX I need to follow fairly current
>versions of all the tools.  But that just leads to hassles with changing
>syntax an obtuse error messages.
>
>I can often deal with poor documentation as I tend to learn a lot by 
>example.
>But that fails horribly when the tools change syntax and the examples no
>longer work as expected (or at all).
>
>Perhaps my biggest requirement is that such tools make it easy to work with
>dynamically loaded modules in my program.  The interfaces for this task 
>vary
>so much from machine to machine that libtool is almost a necessity.
>
>What experience have you with other tools that accomplish the same task?  
>Are
>there even others that are up to the task?
>
>
>--
>--John Gruenenfelder    Research Assistant, UMass Amherst student
>                         Systems Manager, MKS Imaging Technology, LLC.
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