Re: include incompatibilities

[Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 03:36:35PM +0200, towo@computer.org wrote:
>Chris Faylor also said:
>: You're talking about normal problems with porting software between various
>: systems.  This kind of thing is a fact of life that you have to live with.
>Certainly. But we should hope that everyone is striving to keep these 
>unproductive efforts to a minimum nowadays.
>
>: It's the reason for things like autoconf and MetaConfig.  Perhaps using
>: one of those two packages is the solution you're straining for.
>If only these were easy to handle - I gave up an attempt to use autoconf 
>for my software after I realized that just getting the basics would 
>require me several hours of study - or is there any HOWTO or rather 
>mini-HOWTO available for autoconf?

I have no idea.  Since many many many packages are autoconf'ed I don't
think that it can be that hard.  I usually just use some preexisting
package as a template.

cgf

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