Re: autoconf / automake

[Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 03:57:14PM -0500, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Rob Kendrick wrote:
> 
> > We now have a single build system that builds a GUI web browser
> > (including layout engine) on half a dozen platforms (including
> > extremely un-UNIX-like ones) without a bit of autoconf/make in sight.
> 
> But it requires pkg-config and perl?

Just pkg-config, and in many cases it can do without, depending only on
it for automatic detection of where libraries are installed (there are
some common search paths in there, too, if all else fails.)

B.