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Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder
- To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com>
- Subject: Re: Auto-tools & Win32 & Borland C++ Builder
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 23 May 2001 15:34:30 -0600
- Cc: guidod at gmx dot de, mh at openoffice dot org, Axel Thimm <Axel dot Thimm at physik dot fu-berlin dot de>, automake at gnu dot org
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- References: <63940.990652266@puss.pfcs.com>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Harlan" == Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> writes:
Harlan> While (IMO) it "did better" than autoconf for quite a few
Harlan> years, I bailed on it several years ago because it was not
Harlan> suitable (at that time) for srcdir != builddir, and that was
Harlan> something I needed Badly. To my knowledge, it still does not
Harlan> handle srcdir != builddir.
I actually did a lot of work on metaconfig to make this work. That
was in 1996. Some of my changes were incorporated, I think. Some may
not have been (I also changed MakeMaker to allow this; I think those
patches were dropped).
Tom