[Zlib-devel] Use autoconf for zlib?

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Mark Adler <madler at alumni.caltech.edu> schrieb:

hi,

> I'm considering going to Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool for zlib.  

ugho!

> I am just now looking at them, and otherwise have no experience  
> developing with them.  I'd like to think that this would make my 
> life easier in the long run, but I'm not sure.  Are there any 
> opinions on the wisdom and/or difficulty of doing this for zlib?

Well, moving zlib to autoconf shouldn't be such a problem. 
Just add some files and run the whole stuff. 
I was also playing with this idea, since it provides a quite good
interface for relocations and similar options. After some deeper
fixes and a complete rewrite of libtool it now also seems to be 
quite usable ...

But: be aware that generating the buildfiles takes longer than 
building the whole lib.


I'm currently working on another approach: I'm developing my own
buildsystem, which models the *structure* of software modules 
instead of any rules for the generation process. Yesterday I've 
ported libbzip2, today it's zlib's time :)


cu
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