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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Pascal Obry wrote:
>=20
>> Matthieu Moy a =E9crit :
>>
>>> I have no experience with the autotools with Ada, but I believe
>>> automake is of no use if you use gnatmake or equivalent. autoconf
>>> itself is still usefull, but it is anyway mostly language independant=
=2E
>>
>>
>>
>> No automake is still useful for Ada. gnatmake only build the tool. But=

>> you probably also want to install, setup the build, create tarball for=

>> distribution... all this can be done in makefiles.
>=20
>=20
> If your programs are just Ada, chances are that you can do
> software configuration more or less from within the language
> using the Ada make tools provided with your toolset.
>=20
> For example, use suitable package renamings.
> Replace #ifdef hacks with one-spec many-bodies.
> Place the different bodies in different directories,
> etc etc etc.
>=20
> autotools running on anything but well-autotested Unix platforms
> tends to grow into a maintenance nightmare AFAICS.
> The more I have to cope with auto*ed software on non-Unix
> platforms, the more I think autotools is an oxymoron.

yes, ok, but I only work on unix platforms. I don't care about windows.
I usually use autotools because they are useful to create makefiles and
to deal with tarballs.