[Klug-general] autotools [was: Saturday 25th July 10am to 2pm]

Mike Evans mike at tandem.f9.co.uk
Tue Jul 21 13:56:09 UTC 2009



james morris wrote:

> 
> Just wondering if you've come across waf:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/waf/
> 
> Have just built a few packages from source which come with ./waf scripts.
> Compared with ./configure, the output is very clean, and in colour too (
> meaning I suppose, it's much less intimidating ). If that is any
> reflection of it's ease of use/deployment (a listed reason to use it),
> I might have to try it some time.

No - that's a new one on me.  Does sound interesting though, especially 
the killer feature listed on their intro page:

    o the three-letter name makes the command easy to type ;-)

Just has to be good!

Mike



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