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KS2011: Afternoon topicsKS2011: Afternoon topicsPosted Nov 23, 2011 22:33 UTC (Wed) by oak (subscriber, #2786)In reply to: KS2011: Afternoon topics by nix Parent article: KS2011: Afternoon topics
> Oh, and it doesn't require building any kind of 'executable tool' at all, only a portable shell script. The entire *reason* why configure scripts are a shell script is because the distributor / builder needs nothing but a shell and core Unix shell tools: they do *not* need Autoconf or Automake. For scons you need a whole flipping Python installation
I think python-minimal is quite a bit smaller than POSIX base system (shell, perl, awk, GNU core utils etc). I don't understand why Autools generate scripts that are supposed to work with some foobar non-POSIX shells that don't support functions (which makes configure scripts pretty much unreadable), but then requires Perl etc.
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KS2011: Afternoon topics Posted Nov 25, 2011 18:46 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Autools generate scripts that are supposed to work with some foobar non-POSIX shells that don't support functionsThis was dropped some time ago. configure scripts now use shell functions to some degree.
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