Re: [tbox-l] what is it good for?

[<ma...@au...>]

If you have a self-contained C program with all portability issues internalized,
then you might not have a need for the AIX Toolbox.  On the other hand, 
if you developed your application on Linux assuming the presence of certain
GNU/Linux tools (such as would be the case if you followed the GNU coding
guidelines, for example), then there are utilities which are provided in the
Toolbox which your application might need in order to build (autoconf, 
automake, libtool).  If you packaged for Linux using RPM, that's in the Toolbox
as well.

The Toolbox contains many other things which have nothing to do with 
development (desktop managers, window managers, web tools, shells, editors)
which people may find useful or interesting.

Marc

> 
> Hello.
> 
> I do not understand what you've build this AIX toolbox for Linux for. If
> I have C-code, it's easy to compile it on both platforms (okay, need to
> encapsulate one or two include files with #ifdef's and such things). And
> this would produce "native" AIX and Linux executables. But if I do not
> have C-code, the toolbox won't help me - or did I miss something? So
> what is it doing good for me?
> 
> Sincerely
> Harald
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