From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Mon Jan 11 1999 - 09:44:37 EST
On Jan 11, 1999, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:
> I wasn't referring to the tools.. I was referring to the idea of
> putting all this stuff into kaffe. It's a half-baked idea because
> as of yet it just plain doesn't work.
Well, it takes time to get everything working. Think of the amount of
time people have put into porting Kaffe to so many platforms, and
compare it with the few-days effort I've put into it to use automake
and libtool. Some of the work that people have made has been
discarded, and replaced with the genericity offerred by libtool, but
some functionality may have been lost, and it should eventually be
restored by integrating it into libtool.
> On the other hand, I think it's a noble effort and hope we can get
> it to work... and I'm personally willing to be patient.
Thank you and Godmar for all the patience. It's very annoying to be
unable to make progress, and I'm really appreciating your willingness
to accept this inconvenience for a short period of time, while I try
to settle things down.
> But the key is that it has to eventually work, without special
> hacks, versions and environment variables.
It will, I promise.
> I'm not a automake or libtool hacker (or whatever) and would prefer
> not having to become one..
I am, so I accept the responsibility for making it work. Well, after
installing the changes, I don't think I have much alternative, anyway :-)
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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.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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