On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:48:54 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:


>> Make et al are pretty
>> rubbish once you move out of x86 *nix land.
> 
>   What do you mean by that?  As a Sun UltraSparc user I find that the
>   Sun
>  development tools are excellent.  Even the Intel port of Solaris is
>  very much a corporate full blown unix.

Perhaps that was a little badly phrased, its not the quality of the
programs mostly its just set up. In my experience there's very few
./configure scripts that actually end up with a finished product unless
you're on a *nix.

Taking for example the situation under discusion, the make setup for UNIX
povray assumes x86 only optimization options for a ppc only platform
(ignoring marklar for the moment). now as uname -p returns powerpc you'd
thing the ./configure would have the smarts to say hey this is powerpc let
get the right optimisation. Can anyone tell me if it builds properly under
PPC linux ?

Libtool can be a nightmare too for lesser know OS's like BeOS for example.
Until very recently libtool claimed that BeOS could not used shared
libraries, which was complete and utter rubbish.

Dave

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