More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release [LWN.net]

More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Posted Dec 28, 2005 10:45 UTC (Wed) by dmantione (guest, #4640)
In reply to: More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release by alvherre
Parent article: More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Autotools are only usable outside Unix if you load a bunch of Unix junk,
i.e. cp, mv, sed, awk, and other Unix tools onto the OS you port to which
is effectively emulating Unix on such an OS. Besides that it is not fun
it causes portability problems since those tools must be ported as well.
There is no way to make Autotools use copy or move for example in Win32.

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More information on the X11R7.0/X11R6.9 release

Posted Dec 28, 2005 14:00 UTC (Wed) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

Just a slight remark: autoconf and friends are mainly used by developers, as an ordinary user who wants to install a new piece of software you just run configure, so that's where your portability problems start.

No need to make things more complicated than they already are.