Timeline for Why has there been so little innovation with autoconf configure scripts in the Unix and Linux ecosystem?
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| Jul 28, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | schily | Such things do not belong into configure. You can do all this in my software using make command line macro definitions. | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 18:09 | comment | added | ErikF | @schily Normally, I agree that you shouldn't need to override the settings in a configure script. However, sometimes you want to use nonstandard locations and filename (usually for testing), and sometimes the script simply guesses wrong! I've had that happen a couple of times. | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | schily | A program that needs manual changes on configure options is badly maintained by it's author. My software compiles out of the box on all supported platforms. | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 17:39 | comment | added | ivanivan | As long as you bring up Gentoo, don't forget its use flags so that you can somewhat automate various ./configure options. I still recall the time I did a stage 1 from scratch (Gentoo had just come out) and I did all of X and the browser (Mozilla) and I forgot to add "+jpeg" to my use flags.... | |
| Jul 28, 2018 at 16:45 | history | answered | ErikF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |