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On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 13:24 -0700, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On November 23, 2008, Matěj Týč wrote:
> > > I am not a big fan of autotools or libtool.
> >
> > OK, so slightly another question: If I send a patch that creates a
> > functional and documented autotools-based build system for Allegro 4.3,
> > is it going to be accepted? It is important for me to know whether to
> > continue working on it, so if anybody here thinks that autotools =>
> > "unconditional rejection", it would be highly beneficial that these
> > persons say that now...
> > Regards,
> > Matej
>
> 4.3 already supports autotools, and I don't think it should "go away". I don't
> know if a wholesale replacement of the current autotools setup will be
> accepted as-is, we'll probably want you to make changes here and there, and re
> document how to build with it on all platforms it supports. That said, don't
> remove the current makefile setup for any of the supported platforms. We can't
> force people to move wholesale to MSYS on windows just because we wanted a
> slightly cleaner autotools build system.
>
I think we need to be clear about what "autotools" means. From what I
remember, your patch would extend the autotools build so from now on it
would depend on automake as well as on libtool. And I don't think those
two are seen favorably by most of the developers.
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Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>