Are all these autotools stuff backward-compatible? What is the advantage 
to use them instead of having a complete hand-written makefile? Isn't 
the make language multi-platform? (excuse me for the ignorance, but I'm 
only using MSVC and dev-cpp, both generating a makefile automatically 
and in a very easy way).

gab

Anthony Kozar wrote:
> Sorry, I guess that I had the impression that anyone trying to install
> Csound from source would have to go through the same steps that were being
> discussed on the list.  If running the configure script does not require
> having autotools, then I guess that we are in good shape.
> 
> Thanks for the info Steven :)
> 
> Anthony Kozar
> anthony.kozar@utoledo.edu
> 
> 
> On 2/23/04 3:54 PM, steven yi etched in stone:
> 
> 
>>End user shouldn't need the autotools to compile as they would get a src
>>tarball that has all the auto-stuff predone, so will only need to do
>>"./configure; make".  For most end users, they probably shouldn't need
>>to compile either and just receive binaries (with installers, as Richard
>>Dobson mentioned). 
> 
> 
> 


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