[geeks] UNIX development and makefile discussion

[Nick B]

Have you considered making the common code a library?
Nick


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:27:05 +0000
> microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>
> >  Aside from writing portable code what should I be considering?
> cmake: http://www.cmake.org/
> cmake will perform automatic tests to find platform speciffic options
> like where include files are to find and then it will generate
> makefiles. Think of it as "meta-make". cmake eases the tedious process
> of writing makefiles and organizing them considerably.
>
> The GNU autotools (autoconf, automake, auto...) do similar things. But
> I do not recommend them. Every time I have to use autoconf it drives me
> insane because it is so arcane. It polluts projects with GNUisms and
> simply doesn't work well in todays *ix environement. Most autoconf
> scripts I came across are badly written (due to autoconfs idiosyncrasy)
> and thus don't work well. So I have to play dirty tricks to autoconf to
> make it do things the way I need. So instead of doing things
> automaticaly I have to do them manually and doing it manualy is a PITA
> with autoconved stuff. Avoid autoconf like the plague!
> --
>
>
> \end{Jochen}
>
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