Thank you for not using autoconf

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Jun 7 02:44:15 UTC 2013


On 06/03/2013 10:28:57 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> In concept, I think the Busybox "make menuconfig" style configuration
> is probably the worst of all. It's hard to automate and requires a
> learning curve for each program you want to build. The only reason it
> "works well" for cross-compiling with Busybox is that cross-compiling
> is a major usage case the maintainers care about. If you find a
> non-embedded-oriented program using this build system, you'll probably
> go through hell to get it to cross-compile right.

There's a reason I had "make defconfig" be the maximum sane  
configuration, so people could avoid having to fine-tune anything  
through the gui if they didn't care to.

Rob


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