Re: [dwm] autoconf

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:50:31PM +0100, Anselm R Garbe wrote:
>
> 2009/3/19 Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck_AT_eia.be>:
> > I'm in the process of cross-compiling dwm. I understand the idea of
> > having a config.mk for this, but it is not the easiest.
> > Since I had to fix some other packets too, I learned myself to setup a
> > minimal autoconf. This allows one to do:
> > ./configure && make && make install
>
> What does wc -l configure output after you run autoconf?
4195
>
> Anyway, I can't see any reason why setting CC and possibly INCS and
> LIBS is more difficult than dealing with obscure arguments to
> configure, which also may require CFLAGS, LDFLAGS and CC in the
> environment if you intend to cross compiler -- OR some --target-XYZ
> and --host-XYZ arguments...
>
> For which target platform do you attempt to compile dwm?
>
> (I only did it for maemo so far, and there I didn't need to change
> anything at all, because my scratchbox setup was done properly).
I use ptxdist, and there, the environment is set up too. But I found
./configure easier to experiment with :-)
>
> Kind regards,
> --Anselm
>
Received on Thu Mar 19 2009 - 22:53:07 UTC