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| author | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2001-02-23 18:00:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulf Möller <ulf@openssl.org> | 2001-02-23 18:00:06 +0000 |
| commit | ba93fd6a383ad609657b42e9302826f48f0d9f6d (patch) | |
| tree | ec7d76acbc18d5dd08f07aeb070f0e584a84922f /FAQ | |
| parent | d7c06e9ec74ef7e71d36b0ffdf95167e67804f1f (diff) | |
autoconf would be useful...
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| -rw-r--r-- | FAQ | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -116,12 +116,8 @@ A number of Linux and *BSD distributions include OpenSSL. * Why aren't tools like 'autoconf' and 'libtool' used? -autoconf is a nice tool, but is unfortunately very Unix-centric. -Although one can come up with solution to have ports keep in track, -there's also some work needed for that, and can be quite painful at -times. If there was a 'autoconf'-like tool that generated perl -scripts or something similarly general, it would probably be used -in OpenSSL much earlier. +autoconf will probably be used in future OpenSSL versions. If it was +less Unix-centric, it might have been used much earlier. libtool has repeatadly been reported by some members of the OpenSSL development and others to be a pain to use. So far, those in the |