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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday, July 23, 2010 11:31:06 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> 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 ...

again, i'm not interested in maintaining a fork.  if the zlib maintainers 
arent going to take an autotool fork, i'll try and fix what they do have.

> > 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.

man, that's the best laugh ive had in a while.  let's take libtool which has 
great portability across random/archaic systems, rewrite it in java and punt 
any semblance of portability in terms of output capabilities, and then declare 
it better than libtool.  so genius i dont know why i hadnt thought of this 
sooner.  i could make millions !
-mike
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