At 14:21 Uhr -0500 25.10.2001, Joe Laffey wrote:
>Autoconf is a great system that works fine on the BSD OSes.

As long as it works. When it comes broken, it's a nightmare to see through
and fix. Even imake work is nicer.

>If they have
>broken it on OSes other Linux I doubt it has to do with Autoconf/Automake,
>so much as their implementation.

It has to do with adding an additional level of complexity, and with
needlessly replacing Makefiles that worked - change for change's sake.

	hauke

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