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Re: Tired of make.
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- Subject: Re: Tired of make.
- From: Joel Squire <jsquire@neonsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:47:38 -0600 (MDT)
On 8 Jun 1999, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> MDJ> with one Guile-based tool + a set of databases.
>
> If the result of using such a tool were a system-specifc binary
> install package (dpkg/rpm/swpackage/pkgadd/swmgr), the objection about
> requiring extra tools vanishes -- you get the native distribution
> format. The rest of the folks that want to do custom source builds
> for whatever reason can install this tool (which makes no assumptions
> about pre-existing GNU support tools for its build).
>
> So, a single, extensible Guile-based system to target the range of
> system features and idiosyncrasies (currently covered by
> autoconf/libtool), resulting in a installer package that does all the
> right things for any given target distribution format...
This, I'd be interested in working on. I've tried to build something like
it in the past with the whole auto*/make/package tree and shell scripts,
applied to random sourceware projects from the net, and found it to be too
fragile to be worthwhile.
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