[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.4.2 ready for its close up

[Vincent Torri]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * Volker Grabsch <vog at notjusthosting.com> schrieb:
>
>> In mingw-cross-env, I have very good experiences with packages
>> that use autotools. Those usually only fail when the maintainers
>> add hand-written shell code to their configure.ac that didn't
>> have cross-compiling in mind.
>
> The problem is: autoconf allows that, but lacks any syntactic
> seclusion whatsoever (not even mentioning sematic one). So it's
> error-prone and nearly undebuggable from ground up.
>
> Actually, I never would have used m4 in the first place, but
> instead built everything on a clearly defined set of shell
> functions.

ffmpeg (or geexbox) configure scripts can do that. Maybe for 1.2.6 it's 
time to start a configure script from scratch. Modifying the current one 
is not a good solution at all

Vincent Torri