You might be interested in a recent No Starch Press publication: <a href="goog_1305231515">Autotools: </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://nostarch.com/autotools.htm">A Practitioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool</a></span><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Adam Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ooh, I'd love to get *any* insight into what autotools does. OTOH, that could easily fly right over everyone's heads at the meeting (including mine)... Thoughts on that, anyone?<br>
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I certainly would second doing an RTFM bit on fink(1) (or is it (8)?). Any serious MacOS user (IMHO) eventually winds up needing one of those projects for *something* or other.<br>
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And another hat to throw into the ring: make(1).<br>
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On 09/27/2010 07:26 PM, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:<br>
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> Speaking of Mac stuff (this ought to interest you and Lindsay)... Since<br>
> it came up in an earlier conversation, it might be useful to have a<br>
> presentation on MacPorts, Fink, etc.. I've used it a couple of times<br>
> successfully and once unsuccessfully. No doubt there are some<br>
> features/tweaks we don't know about. ;-)<br>
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I could do something on this (I was one of the project leads for the<br>
Fink project for a few years and have a fair knowledge of MacPorts).<br>
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Alternatively, I could do something quick on the autotools (also known<br>
as autocrap), if there is interest in that.<br>
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Peter<br>
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