Re: [QStat-devx] Current CVS how to build?

[Steve J. <ste...@ya...>]

Yeah, I thought the 10 line makefile was just fine.  But the autoconf benefits
you list are some what compelling.  They aren't enough for me, given the head
aches you've encountered; I've got zero patience for unreliable tools.

I suggest restoring the simple works-on-most-unixes makefile.  The fewer
barriers to entry, the more successful QStat will be.  Autoconf will be nice
for the qstat developers (assuming all the developers can get it working), but
we shouldn't expose it to users.

Steve


--- Ludwig Nussel <l-...@us...> wrote:

> Steven Hartland wrote:
> > Nope autoconf doesnt seem to be a standard tool so I'd say we best
> > avoid it:
> > 
> > steven@besson [steven] autoconf
> > bash: autoconf: command not found
> > 
> > root@dev1:installs> autoconf
> > autoconf: Command not found.
> > 
> > root@yoda:qstat2> ./autogen.sh 
> > + which autoreconf
> > + aclocal
> > aclocal: not found
> > + autoconf
> > autoconf: not found
> > + autoheader
> > autoheader: not found
> > + automake
> 
> automake/autoconf are standard GNU development tools and they are
> probably just as annoying as useful sometimes. The reasons I want it
> for are at least, make dist, make distcheck, the standard install
> target and the automatic dependency rules it generates. When I asked
> last month the only concern was that it may not work on Windows,
> therefore I added a simple Makefile.w32 for that. Note that you do
> not need automake or autoconf if you compile the released version.
> Only the CVS doesn't contain configure etc since those files are
> automatically generated.
> 
> cu
> Ludwig
> 
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