Re: removing support for the hand-edited unix makefiles

I use unix-gcc.mak and unixansi.mak with Cygwin.
I didn't try to run autoconf with Cygwin.
I have no time to test it before my vacation.

Igor.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Giles" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 2:46 AM
Subject: [gs-code-review] removing support for the hand-edited unix
makefiles


> I'd like to propose removing unix-gcc.mak and unixansi.mak from the
> distribution. I think the time has come. The autoconf build completely
> subsumes both options and is growing more capable. Many of our users
> seem to have made the transition.
>
> The particular impetus is bug 686938 from a user whose standard headers
> aren't in /usr/include, a situation autoconf handles but the simpler
> checks in unix-aux.mak do not. This is actually a reasonable candidate
> for "won't fix" but having configure generate gconfig_.h fixes this
> handily. However, this conflicts with the generation in unix-aux.mak,
> also used by the autoconf build. This can be worked around various
> ways, of course, but I feel the traditional makefiles are no longer
> worth the administrative burden.
>
> A more conservative approach would be to just remove unix-gcc.mak.
>
> Comments? Objections?
>
>   -r
>
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