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Re: Build automation
- To: bobg at zanshin dot com
- Subject: Re: Build automation
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 97 10:27:15 PDT
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com (egcs team)
> Please forgive me if this is a sensitive topic, but I've always found
> Cygnus' autoconf scripts and build process to be a little baroque and
> inflexible. Are there any plans to rewrite egcs' configuration and
> build in terms of automake 1.2, autoconf 2.12, and libtool 1.0?
And break cross compilation, Cygnus's bread and butter?
Yes, things could be improved, but autoconf doesn't help when the target
machine is different from the host.