[PATCH] autoshit/libfool fixes

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sun Jun 12 19:24:36 PDT 2005


On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 11:58:58PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> About a year ago, @xouvert we had the discussion of working on
> completely new approach, without any unstable macro stuff for 
> somehow trying to control the buildprocess, instead an stricly 
> descriptive model for the software's structure. The smallest
> and most strict kind of information required for 100% deterministic
> builds is the software's *structure* - any kind of build process 
> can be derived from that and should not be in the scope of the
> individual package developer.

I think you missed Alan's point, which was that the best thing about
autotools isn't that they're great, but that everyone understands
it, and can work with it.
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