From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multi-platform build system
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:28:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878voo71d6.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0STF5TZ1Z-=rn+ybGbbjoescsrsSN18jdEk_W=aMk-4P3Q@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:05:22 +0200")
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
>> but of course it's invaluable on unixy systems...]
>
> Of course. I still remember the fist time I compiled Perl on a Unix
> system, back in 1991. It used a tool similar to autoconf, and it did
> make funny comments when it was unable to find some libraries or it
> disliked your platform choice or the like. Very LarryWallesque.
Yeah I remember that well ... man those "funny" comments got on my
nerves after a while!!!
[The perl configuration system was also a little different, in that it
was not only really chatty, but also quite interactive, meaning you
had to sit there and answer questions (later I think an unattended
mode was added, but I'm not sure this completely eliminated
interaction) ... what stuff it did do automatically, tended to work
more by "examination" (grep /usr/include for XXX) than by actual
testing (run the compiler with an input program trying to use XXX).
Autoconf was no doubt inspired in part by perl's configure, but the
hands-free operation and real testing were a major advance over it,
from a user's point of view...]
-Miles
--
Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a
man's head.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 21:01 Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 22:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:23 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 23:37 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:09 ` Multi-platform build system Miles Bader
2011-10-14 0:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:55 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 1:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:41 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Multi-platform build system Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 6:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 1:06 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:18 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-14 1:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:47 ` Multi-platform build system Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 3:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:57 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 2:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:28 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2011-10-14 2:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 5:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-14 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 8:20 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:09 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS Miles Bader
2011-10-14 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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