Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Managing changes to projects that use autoconf/automake with tla

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:26:08PM +0100, Robin Green wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:49:54PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > they just don't want to deal with it.
> 
> Maybe
> > they just don't want to deal with it.
> because
> > Even proper use of auto* is usually beyond them
> 
> Maybe if there were less nightmarish alternatives to auto*, they _would_
> want to deal with it?

Frankly, the problem isn't all that easy in the first place, and I
don't think you are going to get radically easier to work with than
auto*. I certainly don't find them particularly awkward. You can
doubtless get better, but I don't think you can get *much*
better. However, you can *fail* to solve the problem, and come up with
something that is radically easier. That's what most "replacements"
for auto* actually do, especially any hand-crafted makefiles.

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