[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] Produce pkg-config file in mingw

[Mark Adler]

On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> I can send autotools patch, which will handle all correctly without
> the whole legacy code you have there is configure and Makefile.in.

Alon,

I'm still trying to parse that sentence.  Are you asserting that autotools will replace all of the functionality currently present in ./configure && make?

I would consider a separate project provided with zlib that uses autotools, but I also want to keep the current configure and make.  They are much simpler, faster, and easier to understand and modify than what autotools would generate.  Many users of zlib want to modify the code and build.  zlib has relatively few portability issues to address in the code itself, as compared to the vast machinery in autotools to address a far larger variety of portability issues.

Mark