Re: [avrdude-dev] autoconf

[Theodore A. Roth]

Ignore the empty reply, I meant to cancel the message and sent it
instead. :-(


On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Brian Dean wrote:

:) Ugh.  Well - we could (cringe) have a Makefile for Linux, one for
:) FreeBSD, and possibly one for Cygwin.

I've done that before I started learning autoconf and friends. It's
not the way to go.

:) But if you were looking toward
:) autoconf/automake anyway, maybe that's the answer.  I must admit that
:) I've never looked under the hood of autoconf/make so I don't know
:) what's involved in gettting that working.  Is it overly complex for
:) something as simple as avrdude?

Even a simple project can become complex when you have to deal with
porting.

:)
:) If need be, I'll just punt and use gmake on FreeBSD.  Lots of other
:) ports depend on it too so unless someone is installing avrdude on a
:) minimal system, chances are its already there anyway.  My main problem
:) is that I can't seem to train my fingers to type gmake instead of
:) make.

That's an option, but might not be needed.

:)
:) But if autoconf/automake will solve other problems, then of course,
:) I'd like to stick with native make on FreeBSD - assuming this is
:) something you are willing to take on.

I've done it for a few projects already and it's not the hard to set
up. It's working out all the porting stuff that takes time.

Ted