So...I've been looking stuff up. Don't have too much free time right now, but it was mostly Googleing.

I have deemed three ideas to be best for Python:

- Write a custom makefile generator. I have some ideas, but they likely won't come to light any time soon.

- Use Boost.Build. It seems ugly and complicated, but it actually has a full configuring system that can detect libraries and try to compile source files. It's written in C89, not C++, and its dependency is the Boehm GC, which probably supports everywhere that Python runs on.

Only issue? It's undergoing a rewrite in Python. However, at the rate it's going, Python will likely be at version 7 by the time they finish.

- Stick with autotools. Trying to avoid this.

Thoughts? Again?

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Ryan

[ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your program. Something’s wrong.

http://kirbyfan64.github.io/

 

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