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

[Bodo Eggert]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, DervishD wrote:
>  * Bodo Eggert <7eggert@xxxxxx> dixit:

> > Standardisation is good, but autotools (as they are used) usurally isn't.
> 
>     Usually, by picking other's project configure.in and tweak blindly.

If it were that easy to write a correct automake script, people would do 
that. Wouldn't they?

> > Configuring the build of an autotools program is harder than nescensary;
> > if it used a config file, you could easily save it somewhere while adding
> > comments on how and why you did *that* choice, and you could possibly
> > use a set of default configs which you'd just include.
> 
>     Looks like CMake...

Obviously something I should look at.
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