[1390] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: ADDENDUM: Re: build system redesign ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Jaspan)
Mon Jul 15 13:23:38 1996
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 13:23:27 -0400
From: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
To: tytso@MIT.EDU
Cc: qjb@netrail.net, tlyu@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9607151720.AA23467@dcl.MIT.EDU> (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Using non-standard tools for building for Windows and Mac --- and gmake
is nonstandard for those platforms --- is a complete non-starter.
Why? Technical reasons, or political/ideaological ones (ie: Windows
users won't demean themselves by touching unix tools)?
Cygnus tried using Cyg-win 32 to build
Krb5, and they've figured out this was a mistake.
Explain.
We want non-Unix programmers to start using Kerberos V5, then we can't
use Unix-based tools. As much as we can, we have to use the native
based compilation tools.
Does autoconf/configure count as a native compilation tool, or are we
not using it on Windows?
Barry
