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autoconf is OK, dunno about the restautoconf is OK, dunno about the restPosted Dec 25, 2005 7:01 UTC (Sun) by evgeny (guest, #774)In reply to: autoconf is OK, dunno about the rest by kleptog Parent article: More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release
> Just because you use autoconf, doesn't mean the Makefiles are automatically generated.
Agreed here absolutely. In all my projects, I generate only two files with autoconf - a config.h and a Make.conf, which are #included into all other source files and makefiles, respectively. This also greatly helps in portabilty to other platforms lacking autoconf support: as a rule, these are pretty API/ABI-stable, so a replacement for "configure" is trivially written in the native script language which basically fills in a predefined template modulus a few options the user might want to alter (equivalents of --with-options etc).
Having said that, there is, undeniably, quite a way ahead of autoconf for many possible improvements.
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