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Re: Tired of make. Anyone interested in a guile-based replacement?
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- Subject: Re: Tired of make. Anyone interested in a guile-based replacement?
- From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <mgd@santafe.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 11:08:26 -0600 (MDT)
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- Reply-to: mgd@santafe.edu
MDJ> I think it would be good to replace
MDJ> autoconf
MDJ> and autoheader
MDJ> and aclocal
MDJ> and automake
MDJ> and libtool
MDJ> and sh
MDJ> and all auxiliary scripts
MDJ> and make
MJD> with one Guile-based tool + a set of databases.
Amen to that!
It seems to me that libtool, in particular, is in need of a rewrite.
Thousands of lines of incomprehensible shell code. <argh>
It's already common to require GNU make, so there's precedent for
requiring the user to install a tool for building things.