#2 Use autotools for generating distribuion

[Christoph Hintermüller]

Hi
I just tried to compile and install the xdraft
package. I had to give up as it would have required
my to update and edit a lot of lines in the Makefiles
and the sourcefiles to get the various includes to
work.

Thus i do recommend that the next patch fix deals
with changing the build process to autoconf,
automake, libtool and other autotools necessary.
This would ease installing and testing of Xdraft
without the nasty guessing game how the pathes and
libraries are set up on your system. Further do not
make the assumption that people use gnome just assume
that the essential libraries like libgnomeui are
installed. I'm prefering kde but still use programs
based on the gnome world if there is nothing else or
if i do consider them better than others.
But only if installing from source is as simple
as ./configure && make && make install

[Ed Falk]

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My experience is that autotools are more work than they're worth, and often only create the illusion of portability. It's better to write portable code in the first place.

That said, could you tell me what OS you were trying to compile under and what errors you got?

[Ed Falk]

Bump. Could you tell me what OS you're working with and what errors you got?