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On Wed, 11 Sep 2013, Peter TB Brett wrote:

> al davis writes:
>
>> On Tuesday 10 September 2013, John Doty wrote:
>>> Basic actions should be simple: the programmer should never
>>> assume complex intent for a simple action.
>>
>> Tell that to the developers of gnu autotools.
>>
>> Over the last few years, by far the majority of the time spent
>> by gnucap developers is related to autotools cruft.
>>
>
> That sucks.  :-( Since I went through and redid the whole geda-gaf
> autotools setup back in 2009 we haven't really had any major autotools
> issues at all!
>

FYI, I've started replacing autotools in my PCB fork. It took less than 1 
day to get scconfig generate Makefiles so that a workign pcb executable 
can be compiled. I expect another day to fully finish it.

Regards,

Tibor

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