GSoC Week 1

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Tor, *,

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Tor Lillqvist <tml at iki.fi> wrote:
> (one doesn't need to hunt for the
> obsolete, ever more difficult to find

That's not true - in fact it is now easier to find than ever. (since
connect.apple.com got its redesign, has been quite a while)

> and difficult to install, Xcode

That is nothing I can comment on...

> 3), we are a big step in that direction. Our principle has always been
> that for the Mac one shouldn't need any 3rd-party software. But now
> when Apple in their wisdom (or by accident) stopped including automake
> and autoconf in Xcode, that isn't true any more.

What about just adding autoconf and automake into the
build-dependencies, with autogen.sh calling "make autotools" if those
are not found?

Probably better than having to keep a generated configure somewhere external....

ciao
Christian