Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/11/21/07:16:32
Charles Wilson schrieb:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> The autotools wrappers (automake 1.7.9-1, autoconf 2.59-1, and libtool
>> 1.5b-1) all have argument parsing bugs. They are trying to parse every
>> option known to either <autotool>-stable or <autotool>-devel, but fail in
>> several respects.
> I've been thinking for a long time of ditching the current wrappers and
> using something more like the linux distros do -- and sacrificing the
> <stdin> behavior, just like they do.
>
> So here's the question: does anybody actually USE <stdin> with the
> autotools? Does ANYBODY do '<some prog that generates a configure.ac on
> stdout> | autoconf' ?
nope. never saw such a usage so far.
but I use a better wrapper which doesn't seperate into stable/devel.
I seperate into the wanted versions for aclocal/automake/libtool.
autoconf is ok the current way.
aclocal-1.7, aclocal-1.8, aclocal-1.9
aclocal-lt-1.5.10, aclocal-lt-1.5.6, aclocal-1.9d (libtool versions)
automake-1.8, automake-1.9
libtool-1.5.6, libtool-1.5.10, libtool-1.9d
older versions not yet. (automake-1.4, automake-1.7.9, aclocal-1.4)
but this is just a private hack and not for general consumption.
> Depending on the response to my question above, I'll probably adopt
> something like this ... but we'll have a fairly long probationary period
> where the wrappers are in 'test' status, regardless.
>
>> If this approach is not considered satisfactory, and you really want to
>> maintain the wrappers to know all options of the underlying tool, I
>> can also
>> prepare patches for that approach that know how to split multiple short
>> options and how to rearrange arguments.
>
>
> Let's wait and see what develops on the "Do you use <stdin> + autotools"
> question. And thanks for your interest and pro-activeness. THIS is
> what opensource development should be like.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
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