Re: [gobo-eiffel-develop] geant file for libexml

[Andreas L. <no...@sb...>]

On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 09:25, Berend de Boer wrote:
> Eric Bezault <er...@go...> writes:
> 
> > > Why reinvent the wheel? Wouldn't it be an idea for geant to generate
> > > Makefiles? Or parts of makefiles one can include. I need a makefile anyway.
> > 
> > The primary reason to use geant in Gobo was to avoid using
> > Makefiles because they are not portable, avoid cygwin on 
> > Windows, etc. 
> 
> A makefile generator (aka autoconf) would get around this problem. Now
> one has to maintain both a makefile and a geant config file.

Well, but last I time I checked autoconf was not runable on straight
windows. And I don't think that will ever change, since it relies on a
lot of tools to be installed (m4, ... IIRC). It will (probably) run with
cygwin, but we wanted to avoid a dependency on cygwin.

Andreas
PS: The problem with mails bouncing should be fixed now. I had to
disable a debug message in the mail deliver script. Thanks Berend for
the hint.