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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Thank you for not using autoconf
From:       Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye <awg () embtoolkit ! org>
Date:       2013-05-31 19:19:03
Message-ID: 51A8F7A7.5080606 () embtoolkit ! org
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On 05/31/2013 08:46 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 31 May 2013 10:43:17 Jon Schneider wrote:
>> Thank you for making this work and please don't let anyone tell you to
>> start using GNU autoconf and friends. They're absolute crap for most
>> packages when cross building.
> not to go way off topic for this list, but that's not really true.  autotools
> tends to work a lot more reliably than $random-build-system-of-the-day.  i
> spend more time fixing non-autotool packages to cross-compile properly than
> autotool ones.

+1

> the amount of plumbing busybox has to make it work is not trivial.  it's
> certainly not something most projects should pick up.
> -mike
>



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