From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4J5RQwh026609 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 05:27:26 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DYdZB-00032F-ER for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 May 2005 05:27:29 +0000 Message-ID: <428C23C0.4090800@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 22:27:28 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050411) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unofficial Gentoo Development Guide and Autotools References: <20050519044425.549e1f64@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050519044425.549e1f64@snowdrop> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a7c8a16f-0bfa-4d55-842d-3d50374c8dbb X-Archives-Hash: 3a0617318aef12439a358210633bb23a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > http://www.firedrop.org.uk/devmanual/general-concepts/autotools/ > > What more would people like to see explained? Is there anything in there > that needs changing or clarifying? Anything that's just plain wrong? > Does it need a section on libtool and if so does someone want to explain > to me how the heck it works? Are there good examples of ebuilds which > make understandable changes to these things that I should be adding as > illustrations? Do you like the picture? Feedback please. I'd like to see a starter on how m4 works. After that, I have a feeling the rest of the content will be much easier to talk about. It's also probably worth linking to the autobook for more info. http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/lecture/Autotools/slides/ seems pretty nice too. Thanks for your hard work on this! Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCjCPAXVaO67S1rtsRAhLmAJ9oWCUMTGbgnwF8N5fEoNOJNV3rHACffkIN wvuNX+QsGC/VHaH5H4V/nfQ= =Ia0a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list