From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761276AbXGFMTg (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:19:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759965AbXGFMT1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:19:27 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.174]:59770 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759637AbXGFMTZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 08:19:25 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:17:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> To: DervishD cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Nix , Karel Zak , List util-linux-ng , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1 In-Reply-To: <20070705192002.GB11204@DervishD> Message-ID: References: <8CYT9-4Ou-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <8Dh9k-8lT-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <8DtDz-3xC-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <20070705192002.GB11204@DervishD> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/ALu1yPCRiQS4syxVEBgIVbvuyAnBUkXIMw6p DHdq34eVnKuhB35FJUOLpwlN5BQLPrPln7hKi+6luZRL7x1ICk jO5/Ja60g87XclRk++MKw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, DervishD wrote: > * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> dixit: > > Standardisation is good, but autotools (as they are used) usurally isn't. > > Usually, by picking other's project configure.in and tweak blindly. If it were that easy to write a correct automake script, people would do that. Wouldn't they? > > Configuring the build of an autotools program is harder than nescensary; > > if it used a config file, you could easily save it somewhere while adding > > comments on how and why you did *that* choice, and you could possibly > > use a set of default configs which you'd just include. > > Looks like CMake... Obviously something I should look at. -- Top 100 things you don't want the sysadmin to say: 45. Was that YOUR directory?