[kaffe] [article] trimming down autoconf's configure scripts by using pkg-config

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe.org> wrote:

Hi,

> you may want to take a look at the gnulib project at savannah, they seem 
> to be collecting such fixes into a nicely maintainable way for autoconf. 
> Maybe you could reuse their work.

Thanks. I'll have a look at it.

BTW: my approach is not just for autoconf, but for other buildsystems
utilizing pkg-config, too. 

I'm currently developing an buildsystem with an completely different
approach: modelizing the *structure* of the software instead of 
writing down rules describing the build process. There's nothing 
like ./configure anymore - the software has to be trimmed down into
modules with strict dependencies. My pkg-config wrapper packages
will do a great job here.


cu
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