Re: [Fresco-devel] automake for fresco

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:14:32AM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote:
> I have generated a top level Makefile.am for fresco including neccessary 
> changes to configure.ac. If anyone is interested in the files, please mail me 
> directly as I am not on the list right now. The current status is that the 
> resulting configure script can enable and disable with the options listed in 
> the current ./configure --help. Berlin appears to bomb during it's configure 
> (which is stock) during the ORB tests. The previous configure, Fresco-C++ I 
> think, works perfectly.

What are the advantages of using automake here?  I don't know automake
personally (though I do know that the people who wrote the build
system considered it and then rejected it because of its
inflexibility, but perhaps its changed since then or something), but
the only really irritating bug with the current system (that I'm aware
of) is the inability of the top-level configure to notice when
SDL/configure or GGI/configure have failed, and react appropriately.
Does automake fix this?  or does it have other advantages?

-- Nathaniel

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