Re: Need help with cleaning up a working GNU Autotools setup

[Dan Espen]

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> writes:

> In comp.os.linux.development.system Sune <sune_ahlgren@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, that's exactly what I want.
>
> Please QUOTE. I can't recall what you are talking about.
...
>> Do you, or someone you know, knows how this can be done? Surely
>> Autotools can be used to set up a tailor-made make environment this
>> way(?)

Well, Peter doesn't.

Sorry, I don't either. Autoconf confuses the heck out of me,
I guess I haven't tried hard enough.

> I don't know what environment you want! but I have described for you
> how to compile outside the source tree, and I do not understand what
> you are talking about autotools for. It is your own business how you
> make the ./configure file

I've seen a few things set up with hand made configure files
but using autoconf will get you so much farther in terms of
portability.