Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: separate build directory support for Chicken

[felix winkelmann]

On Jan 13, 2008 7:56 AM, Ivan Shmakov <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  > It was the Cygwin, mingw, and mingw/Msys builds that created most of
>  > the trouble, AFAIK.
>
>         Well, it seems that there are plenty of packages out there which
>         are both Autotools-based and support the W32 build environments.
>         Though I'd rather not to say much on this topic, since I don't
>         use these environments at all.

Indeed, and they all are mostly broken, or depend on a particular
environment.

>
>         It seems to me that it's the uncomfortability of the developers
>         with Autotools that matters more there.  And I hardly would be
>         able to change it, even would I desire so.  Besides, GNU Make
>         isn't as dumb as it's frequently depicted.

(This painfully reminds me of the discussion we had about cmake, a while
ago. Why does this have to be?)


cheers,
felix