From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 17:00:08 EST
Alexandre can probably answer that question better than I can,
but keep in mind that these tools are only needed for developers
wanting to make changes to the configuration: they're not required
to ./configure kaffe. Correct?
>
> I recall the 'libtool' stuff coming up before - so I typed it at my Redhat linux
> prompt and it turns out that it's not installed here and, I suspect, not
> installed in other places either.
>
> Now if we want to use libtool I'd like it to be used only where it's present, and
> if not for things to still work (is this asking too much?).
>
> As for automake, what exactly does this buy us (it's been a *long* time since
> I looked at automake)?
>
It generates the Makefile.in's from some (supposedly?) simpler .am files.
No really, I'm open to be convinced.
- Godmar
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