From: Steven Lumos <steven@...>
Date: 2006-07-01T06:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Reorganizing configure.in by platform?

"Daniel Berger" <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> After looking at the docs for autoconf (ick), would it help to have
> separate configure.in scripts by platform?
>
> So, you would have a shell script called "configure" that would just:
>
> Check the platform
> Copy the appropriate configure.in script to the current directory
> Run autoconf
> Run configure, passing along any args originally passed to configure

But... it's sort of the point of autoconf to not do that.  And also
autoconf should not be a prerequisite for building Ruby.

> It looks like Perl does something along these lines with the files
> under the 'hints' directory.

Perl uses MetaConfig which is slightly less 'auto' than autoconf.

Steve

> I think it would make life easier for folks trying to contribute for
> their given platform, and would ease maintenance in general.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dan