Re: [ng-spice-devel] ACS converted to automake, autoconf


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From Al Davis <aldavis@ieee.org>
Date Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:45:16 -0800
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> "Arno W. Peters" wrote:
> > I have changed the build system for ACS by the automake, autoconf duo.
> > Note that I have left the old build files around for reference.  I
> > have tried to keep as close as possible to the options available in
> > the original makefiles.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Manu Rouat wrote:
> I did that more than a year ago - too bad Al didn't think it was
> useful at that time (sigh)  ;-)

I appreciate the effort, but I have had a lot of trouble with
automake/autoconf in the past.  In too many cases, I had to edit
files manually, because autoconf forgot something.  This is mostly
pre-Linux, and programs in C not C++.

Can you tell me what the benefits are?  I really want to know.

I guess in some ways, I stick to the old ways much longer than I
should.  Until a few months ago, my distribution build script still
assumed that shar files, posted on alt.sources or comp.sources.misc
would be the primary form of distribution.

al.

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