From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 18:41:21 EST
On Nov 10, 1998, Tim Wilkinson <tim@transvirtual.com> wrote:
> Okay, if libtool is *only* necessary for developers and not
> necessary for people who want to compiled Kaffe out of the box then
> I'd be prepared to see it merged into the sources (experimentally at
> least).
Actually, libtool is a couple of shell-script fragments and
configure.in macros that becomes part of your distribution. The
configure.in macro creates the libtool script based on auto-detected
properties of the local host.
> As for automake - you sound somewhat skeptical Godmar :) I always
> though the Makefile.in was suppose to simplify the generation of the
> Makefile but apparently we can simplify the generation of the files
> to simplify the generations of the Makefiles - some people have too
> much time on their hands :)
:-D
> My suggestion would be to make a branch and try rewriting the
> configuration stuff then we can all see if it's useful or not.
Ok, will do, when I find the time for that. There will be a lot to
cut :-D
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.anu.edu.au}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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