Doug Gregor wrote:
Let me put it this way: since I wrote the "configure" script for Boost, the number of times I've been told that Boost is too hard to build (e.g., at conferences and workshops) has decreased *drastically*. bjam is powerful, but it's non-traditional. For all of the failures of autotools (and there are many!), *nix programmers understand how to build autotools-based projects and can do it very, very easily. "./configure && make && make install" is enough for the vast majority of the open source projects in the world.
I agree. It's probably fine for common cases. I only think the docs should not offer hope of configuring with an alternate compiler (at least, one that is not in the user's path) by describing environment variables that seem to have no effect. BTW, it did the job of finding the installed Python, which is in itself an improvement. -- Dick Hadsell 914-259-6320 Fax: 914-259-6499 Reply-to: hadsell@blueskystudios.com Blue Sky Studios http://www.blueskystudios.com 44 South Broadway, White Plains, NY 10601