Re: 19980917 compiling

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

Andreas> ok, i tried to live without autogen.sh, and do everything myself.

Andreas> it works, till you find a package with internal subdirs, libe
Andreas> ORBit has as libIDL/ subdir. finding out what subdirs exist,
Andreas> and doing the right things is much more trouble than getting
Andreas> these informations once, writing them into a file, and useing
Andreas> that.

Instead of using autogen.sh you could get the autoreconf patch and
just use that instead.

It might not support libtool; I haven't looked at it closely in a
while.  That would be a useful addition.

Tom