From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8206 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2010 18:19:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 8119 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Feb 2010 18:19:41 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.network-theory.co.uk (HELO mail.network-theory.co.uk) (66.199.228.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:19:37 +0000 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:19:00 -0000 Message-ID: <87y6ipozqi.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> From: Brian Gough To: "Field G. Van Zee" Cc: gsl-discuss mailing list Subject: Re: Feedback from GSL folks on libflame 4.0 In-Reply-To: <4B7D90B5.4020707@cs.utexas.edu> References: <4a00655d1002171047t4e87fb85w88b609245e3f9a8e@mail.gmail.com> <4B7D90B5.4020707@cs.utexas.edu> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Message-Mac: 84ce1583961f1402ae9d35bd07d26f0e Mailing-List: contact gsl-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gsl-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-q1/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 At Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:10:45 -0600, Field G. Van Zee wrote: > Notice that we only use autoconf, not automake or libtool. Why is > using autoconf undesirable? We were trying to be good GNU software > citizens when we designed the build system. Thanks for using autoconf. I think it is a good thing. As a maintainer, I also like automake and libtool because they standardise the build process and reduce the amount of code I am responsible for -- if there is a problem, I just pass it over to the automake/libtool maintainers. Automake's "make distcheck" is also a nice feature. -- Brian Gough GNU Scientific Library - http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/