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Re: [hopefully fixed] Re: autogen.sh issues
- To: Craig Brozefsky <craig at red-bean dot com>
- Subject: Re: [hopefully fixed] Re: autogen.sh issues
- From: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Date: 04 Jun 2000 11:07:30 +0200
- Cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: who? me?
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Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com> writes:
> I still think we should submit a patch upstream to the automake people
> making it behave like all good build tools should, letting definitions
> in local files override definitions in dist files, perhaps with a
> little hedz up. What I think we should do and what we can do appear
> to be seperated by a bottomless chasm of scripting hell.
yes.
> [snip: a nice summary of why aclocal sucks]
I know that what I did is a kludge. unfortunately, I'll only ever
dive into the auto* tools (and Perl and m4 in general) if I'm paid a
lot of money for it. ick.
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