Re: autotools gives autopain

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Сбт, 17/12/2005 в 15:03 +0800, Davyd Madeley пишет:
> On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 22:26 +0000, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> > Sean D'Epagnier wrote:
> > 
> > > Isn't it true that scons requires you download and install it as an 
> > > extra program to use it?  Many users may not have scons and may not 
> > > want to install it, but do want to install gnome (by compiling from 
> > > source code).
> > 
> > This is identical to the situation for autotools.
> 
> Only to run autogen, not configure.
> 
> --d
> 

You are probably not correct here Davyd, current gnome builds do require
pkg-config to be installed.

Btw, does anybody know if it possible to do things like make distcheck
with scons? It seems to be very important feature of autotools.