Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

From: Nix
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 16:37:19 EST


On 5 Jul 2007, Bodo Eggert outgrape:
> I'm really really happy if I read 'edit Makefile.conf and run make...'.

autobuild scripts find it a hell of a lot more annoying to edit a different
makefile for every project than to run one unchanging config.site...

It's hardly a killer, but it would be a step backwards IMO :( by all
means switch to a nicer build system: cmake, perhaps? but ditching
standardized build systems entirely is not so good.

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be able to wield metal.' --- Kenneth Eng's colourless green ideas sleep
furiously
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