Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3139] GNU make required

[Tom Holub <doosh@best.com>]

On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 07:56:42PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Jeffrey Nowakowski wrote:
> 
> > This is a late response, but I was going through some old mail.
> > 
> > Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can't tell you that, I hate autoconf.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> For one thing, you get kludge compile lines, like:
> 
> gcc -I. -I.. -Iinclude -I. -I. -L. -DNOT_USED -L.. -L../lib -DMEANINGLESS -DDEF
> INED_ELSEWHERE -O4 -I/usr/local/include -O0 -g -fno-strength-reduce -c ./../src
> /foo.c -o ./../src/foo.o
> 
> And that's a short one!
> 
> It's also a pain in the as to get an autoconf program to compile if it doesn't
> work out of the box.  If the autoconf script can't find a library and include
> and you know where it is, it can sometime be impossible to tell autoconf that. 

setenv LDFLAGS /opt/local/lib
./configure
 -Tom