Re: removing support for the hand-edited unix makefiles

Unless you plan on supporting the pcl6 and pspcl6 builds,
no thank you.


On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 16:46, Ralph Giles wrote:
> 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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