[ptx] Switch to autotools?

[Pablo d'Angelo]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Fabian Wenzel wrote:

> I know that autotools are a little heavier, but they provide nice features
> like convenience libraries, debug/release targets and also cross-platform
> development (I actually compiled panoglview.exe for windows on linux. The
> mingw32 cross-compiler and also wxWidgets for cross-compilation is
> already in debian, so it is *really* nice not to switch OS every time).

I'm using the mingw32 compiler on debian, but I haven't found the win32
wxWidgets version and all needed win32 libs (tiff,jpg,png,zlib) in debian,
so I compiled them myself.

> Currently I have problems compiling CVS hugin from scratch on debian/sid.
> Of course all issues are not severe and solvable, but if there are no
> objections I could rewrite hugin's Makefile generation with autotools.

No, I don't have objections, I just tried auto* tools several years ago and
found them very messy, but that was probably my lack of shell programming
knowledge and inablility to read/understand the autotools info page. Having
that in mind, I started to use some some older makefiles I had from previous
projects.

ciao
  Pablo
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