[Gllug] [OT] software packaging

[Stig Brautaset]

Hi James,

* James Hollingshead <james at hollo.org> spake thus:
> On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 11:12:42PM +0100, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > Should I be using autoproject/autoconf/automake for my small-ish
> > programs?  I had a brief look at autoproject and think maybe it is a bit
> > overkill... 
> > 
> > It would be nice to know what the 'proper' programmers here think.  The
> > kind of programs I'm talking about I'm sure some of you can hack up
> > during the advertisement-breaks of a matin? on a lazy Sunday afternoon,
> > but for me it is a 'major project' of about 1500 lines of C ;D
> 
> Well I'm not sure I'd claim to be a 'proper' programmer, and it is my
> first post on this list so hello everyone, but I thought I'd reply to
> this one.

Welcome. I wish *my* first post was as worthy as this one ;)
Been lurking long?

> >From the developer's point of view I do find it disturbing how much
> stuff gets generated -- your 1500 C project will end up surrounded by
> 2500 or so lines of build system, even before you start on machine
> dependencies and compile time options. On the other hand the amount of

This was my concern as well.

> that build system you actually need to write is about 10 lines to
> start with. I normally start with just:
> 
> configure.in:
>   AC_INIT(hello.c)
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(hello, 0.0.1)
>   AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
> 
>   AC_PROG_INSTALL
>   AC_PROG_CC
> 
>   AC_OUTPUT(Makefile)
> 
> and Makefile.am:
>   bin_PROGRAMS = hello
>   hello_SOURCES = hello.c hello.h
> 
> and a bootstrap command of:
>   aclocal && autoheader && automake --foreign --add-missing && autoconf

Thanks for this! That got me started, and I now have a working project
compiled with the resulting makefile. Had to STFW to find out how to
check for ncurses, but that's half the fun ;)

Thanks again, I'll try to read up on this thing a bit, so I actually
know what it *does* after my last exam for the year on Thursday... :)

Stig
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