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Re:Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing ... by marcosdumay on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:24AM (#31235494)
Hum... Configure routinely doesn't work for me either, on even more trivial scenarios than cross-compilation.

When I care to look how to fix it, it's almost always some error on the autotools configuration and I can edit the Makefile to run things correctly. Also, when it breaks, there are normally more broken things on the project. But autotools are always among the first things to break.

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Re:Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing ... by teknopaul on Monday May 02, 2022 @11:12AM (#31236166)
Is autotools the first to break or the first that you notice and fix ;)
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Re:Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing ... by marcosdumay on Monday May 02, 2022 @12:19PM (#31237164)
It is a very good predictor of breakage anywhere. Code where the autotools are perfectly configured normally is very close to correct.

It's usually not broken on my own code because I will write a DAG builder in bare C before I use them personally, so I don't know the breakage timing.

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