Subject: Re: minimizing forks (was Re: commit -- removed unused directory in expat)
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2001 - 13:02:17 CST
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:59:14PM -0500, Thomas Briggs wrote:
>
> I wanna throw in a couple thoughts here:
>
> It seems like the cool thing to do lately is check for the presence of a
> system-wide, shared version if it exists, which isn't necessarily a bad
> idea. If it isn't present, however, we seem to be moving towards a reliance
> on "./configure; make" to build the necessary libs if shared versions don't
> exist. That simply won't work on Win32; someone (apparently me) has to
> write abi-style build systems for psiconv as well as expat before Win32 will
> build from the command line again (and I don't see that happening any time
> soon).
> So I guess my point is that we will never escape the Makefile.abi type
> build system, so we may as well take advantage of it.
That's bad. I was under the distinct impression that it was possible
to use configure style build systems on Win32. I know autoconf runs
on them. In fact, they must work, since gcc builds on cygwin. Is the
problem with the compiler options?
sam th
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