"J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost> writes: > This is for any software that does not use GNU Autotools. I actually > prefer not to use Autotools for software I write. I prefer just default > make variables in Makefile that can be overridden from the make command > line invocation (e.g. "make PREFIX=/opt"). This works well, I think, > and it works really nicely for packaging since the packager knows where > things are and can just set them rather than trying to trick Autotools > into figuring out the right things. > > But maybe my no-Autotools approach doesn't scale well; I don't know. It doesn't scale; packagers need to read and understand your docs, rather than just saying "this uses autoconf". Telling autoconf-built packages how to set prefix, and so on is already worked out as a general case.
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