Re: [Swarm-Support] system calls question

[Bill Northcott]

See the manuals for GNU portability tools Autoconf, Automake and Libtool 
at
http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html

Also check out the source for Swarm from the cvs and you will see that 
there are macros (in uppercase text) all over the place.  They are tokens 
for things which need to be done differently on different systems.  Many 
of these are set up when the configure script is run by defining them in 
Makefiles.  The configure script itself is produced by autoconf.  You will 
notice there is no configure script in the cvs sources.  Likewise the 
Makefiles need Makefile.in files for configure to know how to create them. 
 These are made from the Makefile.am files in the sources by automake.

Once set up, it works a treat or at least it does most of the time until 
you get to something new like MacOS X.  All three packages included in the 
current Apple developer tools.  Autoconf and automake seem to work pretty 
well, but libtool has some issues, most of which look like being fixed in 
the upcoming 1.5 release.

Bill Northcott

address@hidden wrote on 27/02/2003 05:12:51 PM:

> On Wednesday 26 February 2003 09:28 pm, you wrote:

> I apologize, I don't quite understand what you mean about using Autoconf 
and
> automake.