Provide option so that config will just run through
without asking any questions other than errata. Not
sure if this is a good idea, but lots of people seem to
really resent hitting return, so ought to be considered.
well unless the ENTIRE make gets upgraded to the GNU
autoconf stuff, there is no real need to imlement this small
feature. There are always workarounds for (the likes of me)
such as
echo | make
which will answer the default for all questions. Beware you
dont type this after you have run make ocnfig once before as
the default is to not overwrite files and the damn program
insists on asking over and over the same question!
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:-D ok, maybe that was the mis-under-statement of the year.
gnu autoconf maybe is not the way to go as this is such a
big project... but i would certainly like to see a simpler
system which does away with the xconfig program
althogether... how about one big top-level Makefile taking a
system build argument and also allowing for custom tuning
(on the command line, without editing the actual Makefile).
There is also some funky parsing going on in the build of
atlas which stopped me from setting my CC to something like
"gcc -s" (i was going to do something like this for PIC
building, but found another way)
ok, a configure script is maybe a little too overambitious :-D
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well unless the ENTIRE make gets upgraded to the GNU
autoconf stuff, there is no real need to imlement this small
feature. There are always workarounds for (the likes of me)
such as
echo | make
which will answer the default for all questions. Beware you
dont type this after you have run make ocnfig once before as
the default is to not overwrite files and the damn program
insists on asking over and over the same question!
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OK, Sam Halliday, I will remember your name: the guy who
things that moving from config to autoconf would be an
"upgrade" :)
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:-D ok, maybe that was the mis-under-statement of the year.
gnu autoconf maybe is not the way to go as this is such a
big project... but i would certainly like to see a simpler
system which does away with the xconfig program
althogether... how about one big top-level Makefile taking a
system build argument and also allowing for custom tuning
(on the command line, without editing the actual Makefile).
There is also some funky parsing going on in the build of
atlas which stopped me from setting my CC to something like
"gcc -s" (i was going to do something like this for PIC
building, but found another way)
ok, a configure script is maybe a little too overambitious :-D
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ATLAS's configure now works a lot like gnu configure, so this is now supported (in developer release.