Subject: Re: use of autoconf?
From: Keunwoo Lee (klee@cs.washington.edu)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 18:21:23 PDT
Actually, I looked at autoconf a while back. One of the main problems
with GNU autoconf is that it's very C/C++ specific. It has lots of
support for managing/detecting standard Unix header files and passing -D
to gcc and such, but getting it to compile some other language is not
easy. Or, at least, it's not in the standard autoconf cookbooks.
Summary: It could probably be done, but it's not trivial, and right now
nobody in the group has time to look into it.
~k.lee
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Craig Chambers wrote:
> We haven't done anything with autoconf. We've only put limited effort into the
> NT version of Vortex, focussing our very limited energies on the Unix ports
> instead. Do you not have access to a Linux system instead?
>
> -- Craig Chambers
>
>
> Venner.Brad@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone looked at using GNU Autoconf to configure Vortex? If so, what
> > is the degree of difficulty? Are there licensing issues that make this
> > unworkable?
> >
> > I have had a difficult time with getting Vortex to run in Cygwin, and it
> > would be nice if the Vortex compiler was more easily available.
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