On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 08:49:57AM +0300, Consus wrote: > On 18:07 Tue 21 Aug, Stuart Henderson wrote: [...] > > They're even slower and uglier if you have to run the m4 stuff to > > *generate* them before you can even run them, and may not work as > > intended if they're run through a version of autoconf which they > > weren't designed for. > > That's why we should nuke autloluz in favor of something else. Just > plain Makefiles for example. Or meson, I heard it's okay.
I always thought that autoconf had been written exactly because "plain Makefile" was unable to make it. It is not really that slow, unless one insists on recreating config and Make* files every time they want to compile a project - like, they would expect their system changed and installed some new stuff during five minutes between compiles. BTW, I sometimes compile from sources (not ports, just source*tgz from the respective websites) and I usually find that config script provided is ok, so I had to regenerate one such file maybe two years ago (via autoconf). HTH -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] **
