Re: Documentation Tasks: lets get organized

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

>
> --- karderio <karderio gmail com> wrote:
>> [3] Autotools (automake, autoconf etc) to me seems
>> like a rather bad
>> solution to a not necessarily so complex problem. I
>> started hacking on a
>> project [4] a few months ago, and for the time
>> being, I'd estimate,
>> without exaggeration, that every hour I spend
>> hacking C code that adds a
>> new feature I spend up to five hours messing with
>> make, most of the time
>> getting nowhere. I'm feel I'm going to have to spend
>> days reading up and
>> learning autotools, as I just can't handle messing
>> about, copying code
>> from other makefiles only to get the nice helpful
>> sort of error message
>> "script doesn't work - try again". Frustrating,
>> especially as autotools
>> work is particularly unrewarding to me.

Yes, you really do need to read something about the tools. I try to
describe some of the basics here:
http://www.openismus.com/documents/linux/automake/automake.shtml


Murray Cumming
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