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autoconf would be useful...

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Ulf Möller 2001-02-23 18:00:06 +00:00
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@ -116,12 +116,8 @@ A number of Linux and *BSD distributions include OpenSSL.
* Why aren't tools like 'autoconf' and 'libtool' used? * Why aren't tools like 'autoconf' and 'libtool' used?
autoconf is a nice tool, but is unfortunately very Unix-centric. autoconf will probably be used in future OpenSSL versions. If it was
Although one can come up with solution to have ports keep in track, less Unix-centric, it might have been used much earlier.
there's also some work needed for that, and can be quite painful at
times. If there was a 'autoconf'-like tool that generated perl
scripts or something similarly general, it would probably be used
in OpenSSL much earlier.
libtool has repeatadly been reported by some members of the OpenSSL libtool has repeatadly been reported by some members of the OpenSSL
development and others to be a pain to use. So far, those in the development and others to be a pain to use. So far, those in the