Re: Potentially Predatory Pre-Announcement of Possible Vaporware (zinq-djbdns-0.01)

Paul Jarc wrote:

> How familiar are you with autoconf?  People who only want to build the
> package, without modifying it, don't need to have autoconf installed.

Sorry, you're right - I had confused the product with its output.  It's
been a while, but the last time I danced this dance I had to install
autoconf to get the project to build a working configure (this may
have been an issue with the project itself).  From memory I ended up
configuring the project's config header and Makefile by hand.  It
certainly was a dependency hell I don't care to repeat (installing
info to read documentation because of philosophical differences
about flat text files and man pages ...).

> It's the same basic idea as with DJB's build system.  His Makefiles
> are generated automatically by his "redo" tool.

I thought his Makefiles were hand generated (albeit djb's hand), and
redo was future-ware?


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  Daryl Tester

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