* [TUHS] Re: autotools
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@ 2024-06-21 15:42 ` Steve Simon
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From: Steve Simon @ 2024-06-21 15:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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my personal frustration with autotools was trying to port code to plan9.
i wish autotools had an intermediate file format which described the packages requirements, that way i could have written my own backend to create my config.h and makefiles (or mkfiles)
in the end i wrote my own tool which crudely parses a directory of C or F77 sourcecode and uses heuristics to create a config.h and a plan9 mkfile, it was named mkmk(1)
it was almost _never_ completely correct, but usually got close enough that the files only needed a little manual hacking.
it also took great pains to generate mkfiles that looked hand written; if you are going to auto generate files, make them look nice.
-Steve
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