From: Jan Kneschke <Jan.Kneschke@kiel.netsurf.de>
  To  : ggi Mailingliste <ggi-develop@eskimo.com>
  Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 01:45:22 +0200 (MEST)

Re: libggi dependencies

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, MenTaLguY wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Jan Kneschke wrote:
> 
> > what about the automake/autoconf/...-package ?? the kde-project is using it
> > all over the place on different archs and you i think you know the size of
> > the kde-project.
> 
> Simple. auto* won't fly on *BSD.  autoconf requires GNU m4 to build
> configure from the configure.in (not a problem for joe blow installing user,
> who doesn't need to modify configure.in, but it is an issue for developers).
> Most of the BSD folks I've talked to were quite upset about the possibility
> of being required to install GNU tools just to do GGI development.

??? very tolerant i think. these developers should rename their 'make world'
to 'make my_fine_bsd_world'. 
where is the problem in using gnu-tools ?? 
is it just a religious one or a functional ?



thats all
  Jan

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