[referencer] Basic question

[Glen Shennan]

Well I've been through the first couple chapters of the automake manual and
it's cleared a whole lot of things up for me.  I'm happy using the build
system the way it is for the moment now, I'll learn more as the need
arises.  In my limited experience I've seen autotools most often used so I'm
happy with this one.  Thanks for the input.

On 2 April 2011 05:21, Daniel K. O. <danielko.listas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Em 31-03-2011 06:48, John Spray escreveu:
> > If you want to learn about build systems then GNU autotools is a bad
> > one to learn.  It's ubiquitous for historical reasons, not because
> > there's anything beautiful about it.  If you are starting from scratch
> > then you should skip autotools and learn CMake or one of the other
> > more modern systems (which don't involve arcane macro languages!).  If
> > you really truly want to know all about auto tools then the official
> > documentation [1] is the place.  However, I can't emphasize enough
> > what overwhelmingly poor use of your time it would be to do so.
>
> Of course autotools will be the most difficult tool to learn, it is the
> one that solves more problems.
>
> I have been dealing frequently with different build systems () for a few
> years now, and from my personal experience the only one that is really
> reliable is GNU autotools. Finding the proper library file, to
> installing (and uninstalling!) in the proper locations, cross compiling,
> even something as trivial as setting compiler and linker flags, or
> proper dependency tracking... most tools fail miserably at that. And
> CMake is not an exception. Oh yeah, CMake DOES use an arcane macro
> language too (that manages to be less readable than the mixed M4+shell
> script from Autoconf.) If you don't use it then you probably could be
> using a Makefile directly. Of course, if a Makefile solves your problem,
> there is no reason to switch to a more complicated solution.
>
> I really wish there was something better than autotools, but for now
> I'll take it over existing alternatives any day.
>
> --
> Daniel K. O.
> "The only way to succeed is to build success yourself."
>
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