Re: [Sqlgrey-users] autoconf for SQLgrey

[Kyle L. <la...@uc...>]

Lionel Bouton wrote:
> Isn't it a little too much work to get portability ? There was a
> temporary problem with a sed -i call, but are there any other
> portability problems (that can't be solved by installing the GNU tools
> or documenting some dependencies) ?

It was a real hassle to work around all the hard-coded paths in SQLgrey.
Honestly, cooking up this autoconf config took me less time than trying
to work out the dependencies the hard way (try, fail, fix, try, fail...).

> What worries me is that autoconf would be another thing to master in
> order to contribute to the project (after a quick look I don't really
> understand much of the content of the added files).

I didn't understand autoconf to any useful degree before I started working
on the autoconf config I just submitted. It looks worse than it is.

--Kyle