From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Wed Jan 27 1999 - 11:33:50 EST
On Jan 27, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> I don't understand why you're so defensive about automake and libtool.
>> I managed to completely re-create all the Makefile and shared library
>> inteligence that had evolved in Kaffe along a few years in about two
>> weeks. Can't you see any value in this?
> Can I see any value? Perhaps in the long run.
Nope. My point is that I have been able to start from scratch and
create a Makefile structure that was equivalent to the complex one we
had in only a few weeks. That's an accomplishment that can't be
ignored. That's something that makes me not even consider not using
automake when I start a new project. And if I plan on creating
libraries, I'll certainly use libtool. That's the value of these
meta-tools, that you haven't been able to enjoy because you have only
seen the bad side of them, because they caused a working environment
to stop working for a while. But think of building up such an
environment from scratch!
> For now, it's taken two weeks to pretty much get back to where we were IMO.
That was exactly my intention.
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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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