From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 15:08:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222A716A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:08:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57D043D3F for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:08:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (p548534E7.dip.t-dialin.net [84.133.52.231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C12732D6F for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:03:22 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41C6EAE4.10901@mukappabeta.de> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:08:20 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: BSD equivalents of autoconf, automake, etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:08:15 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Keep it Simple Stupid. A Makefile that has options settible > by editing with a text editor, and a nice readme file that tells > what all the settible options are, is infinitely superior than > all the configure crap. That is all that the RPM and ports > creators want from you. And the end users don't even want to > compile your stuff in the first place, let alone see it's > install script. I agree with that completely. Although I might add, that it is possible to write well-behaved configure-scripts. It's just that it needs about the same amount of cross-platform knowledge and testing than if you were hardcoding the stuff in Makefiles. -- Matthias Buelow; mkb@{mukappabeta,informatik.uni-wuerzburg}.de