Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-13 Thread songbird
Alberto Luaces wrote: ... > Now that I think about it, you will get faster and better answers in the > automake mailing list. thanks again, i posted there and got a prompt reply that said i didn't understand distcheck, so basically i leave the extra stuff in so that others don't have to have the

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-12 Thread songbird
Alberto Luaces wrote: > songbird writes: > >> in the years of tinkering on linux i've never >> really dug into a lot of things, much preferring >> to hope packages work out of the box and if >> they don't give up and go find something else >> to do (there's always something else to do :) ). > > [

Re: learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-12 Thread Alberto Luaces
songbird writes: > in the years of tinkering on linux i've never > really dug into a lot of things, much preferring > to hope packages work out of the box and if > they don't give up and go find something else > to do (there's always something else to do :) ). [...] > > ok, i've used a small

learning automake, etc. and being minimalistic

2012-04-11 Thread songbird
in the years of tinkering on linux i've never really dug into a lot of things, much preferring to hope packages work out of the box and if they don't give up and go find something else to do (there's always something else to do :) ). so recently, trying to upgrade my understanding i've wanted