Hey Gary, On 09/26/08 20:34, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: >> Long ago, far away and years ago, that is *precisely* the point I was >> making. (Remember the autotool bake-off contest?) > > I remember it well. Code Sourcery.
> The thing that struck me a few days ago was that gnulib actually provides > all the code that such a shim would need, only it has to be copied > piece-meal into the packages that want to take advantage of it as it stands. > Outside of the autotool and GNU communities, the vast majority of people I > encounter strongly dislike the difficulty of using autotools in client I feel a strong kindred spirit with that "vast majority". :) > Wouldn't it be great if we only > had to run that stuff *once* (when installing gnulib) and every other > command-line package that paid attention could remove all of their > autotools glue? 400 lines of intense shell script later, ... > And no one is telling me I'm an idiot yet... looks like a green light to > me :D I got tepid support but nobody's saying, "works for me" yet either. Have you played with it? Attached is a script to do the job. The resulting project can be found here: http://autogen.sourceforge.net/data/ _Some_ feedback before spending too much time polishing would be really nice. Ultimately, I think the script belongs in gnulib/build-aux, though it can be run from anywhere as long as "gnulib-tool" is in the path. Thanks - Bruce
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