Re: Documentation Tasks: lets get organized

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- karderio <karderio gmail com> wrote:
> [3] Autotools (automake, autoconf etc) to me seems
> like a rather bad
> solution to a not necessarily so complex problem. I
> started hacking on a
> project [4] a few months ago, and for the time
> being, I'd estimate,
> without exaggeration, that every hour I spend
> hacking C code that adds a
> new feature I spend up to five hours messing with
> make, most of the time
> getting nowhere. I'm feel I'm going to have to spend
> days reading up and
> learning autotools, as I just can't handle messing
> about, copying code
> from other makefiles only to get the nice helpful
> sort of error message
> "script doesn't work - try again". Frustrating,
> especially as autotools
> work is particularly unrewarding to me. 

It's nice to know it's not just me.
I have never managed to build anything at all, I just
get errors I don't understand from make.


		
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