[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] configure: now accepting all gnu-style path options

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> schrieb:

> this is pure fud.  autotools in general do a hell of a better 
> job supporting cross-compiling out of the box than random home 
> grown build systems.

In the past 10 years, autoconf-based packages have been the vast 
majority of troublemakers for me. To be fair: in recent years,
it's possible to create cleanly crosscompile'able packages if
you dare not to use ill macros like AC_TRY_RUN, AC_CHECK_FILE, 
etc and do imports exclusively via pkg-config.

Anyways, I didn't see any autoconf-based zlib version yet. 
Come up w/ something, and I'd be happy to push it through my
build+test machinery ...

> the only cross-compiling issue worth mentioning is libtool, but (1) it isnt 
> hard to work around in practice and (2) it isnt relevant to zlib.

Well, libtool makes it even worse. It begins w/ a fundamentally
flawed design: rewriting command lines in a unpredictable and
undocumented way instead of providing an clearly specified own
interface. That's why I had to replace it by my unitool.
 

cu
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