Re: gnu autoconf

[Marcel Ruff <ruff at swand.lake.de>]

> >You have testet it with SGI and Linux, possibly
> >Heinrich Götzger could cross-check it on his HPUX.
> 
> I possibly really could do that ;-)
> 
> >
> >If Heinrich has time to do so, he could contact you
> >to get the autoconf pieces.
> 
> What I need would be some hints on how to install autoconf/automake and
> get it running.
> Right now I have a D270 with HP-UX 10.20 available.
> But a bigger problem would be to get a good java (1.2 or 1.3) on my system
> since HP supports Java2 only for 11.x as far as I know.

You are right, only JDK 1.1 is available for HPUX 10.20
so no cross checking is possible.
Thanks nevertheless.

> 
> An other question came up to me, how does it affect the build.xml which is
> used by ant?

This would be parallel to the make stuff.
Using build.xml for C++ is somewhat tricky i believe.
Ant is missing control directives like <if> <while> etc.
which makes it unusable for some tasks.

Marcel


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