a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy

Alexandre Oliva aoliva at redhat.com
Sat Jul 26 02:55:32 UTC 2008


On Jul 25, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> One exists and it works in more platforms.
> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/smake.html

smake is hardly a replacement for GNU make, let alone for autotools
machinery.  It won't take existing configure.{in,ac}, acconfig.h and
Makefile.am files and enable you to autoconfigure and build programs
out of them.  You'd have to rewrite the build machinery of each one of
the packages that use autoconf and automake (and libtool) to be able
to replace GNU software.

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