On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:02:44 -0700
Jeff Hobbs <jeffh@[...].com>  wrote:

...

>  In all these changes I have learned to hate autoconf in new ways, and I 
>  think it is high time that we extended TEA with the creation of a Tcl 
>  script that can build extensions (anything pure Tcl, and possibly 
>  simpler C-based ones) without any need for autoconf.

Well, I have to agree with you there. I consider myself and expert in
autoconf and Makefiles, and it really is just too danged tricky. It would
be nice if simple Tcl and Tcl+C based extensions could come with
a config file that gave just enough info so that the extension could
be compiled. I would think that such a tool would take the extension
info as input and emit a Makefile as output. That way, the script
that writes the Makefile could take care of all the really tricky bits
like library names on different platforms and cross compiling.

Most extension authors would not need to know about exactly how
compiling works on different platforms, they would just run a tool
and then type make.

Mo


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