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In message <isck8i$92j$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> On 06/03/2011 08:23 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> In message<isaq5g11eti@news2.newsguy.com>, Michael Wojcik wrote:
>>> Used properly, autoconf works just fine on Windows - or, at any rate,
>>> as well as it works anywhere. (Like Joshua I am not particularly
>>> impressed with autoconf, though it's not quite as thoroughly
>>> brain-damaged as some of its fellow GNU build tools, such as libtool.)
>>
>> Can you offer anything that works better?
> 
> I submit <language>, where <language> is your favorite interpreted
> and/or bytecode-compiled language and thus deprecates the need for a
> tool whose primary purpose is figuring out exactly what machine it's
> running on.

You mean, the one that requires wrappers that basically reinvent the 
functionality of GNU autoconf?

>> That would certainly not be true with the vast majority of Free Software
>> written in C/C++. Which is the main kind of C/C++ code that I deal with.
> 
> I'm sure that outside of GNU or FSF-blessed programs, there are a lot of
> C/C++ programs that wouldn't compile on Unix-ish-but-not-Linux
> platforms, like OpenBSD or Solaris.

How about this one <http://www.blender.org/>, with a million lines of C 
code, last I counted. Or this one <http://dev.mysql.com/>. Or this one 
<http://www.libreoffice.org/>. Or this one <http://httpd.apache.org/>.