Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH [0/3]: Simplify the kernel build by removing perl. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:54:42 -0500 |
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:11:09 CST, Rob Landley said: > P.S. I still hope autoconf dies off and the world wakes up and moves away > from that. And from makefiles for that matter. But in the meantime, I can > work around it with enough effort.
What do you propose autoconf and makefiles get replaced by?
% wc pidgin/configure* 34287 118303 1004074 pidgin/configure 2499 7684 81532 pidgin/configure.ac
Which you rather code, 2.5K lines of autoconf or 35K lines of configure script? As long as there's enough diversity to require configure scripts, there's going to be a demand for an autoconf-ish feature to ease writing them.
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