[boost] Re: Installing Boost Libraries

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-02-24 13:45:23

At 12:27 PM 2/24/00 -0500, Braden N. McDaniel wrote:

>> That's too bad. I guess the Unix script could first copy the
source
>> files into the automake directory.  But why bother with all that
>> machinery?  Why not just invoke the compiler directly?
>
>You mean, why not avoid automake and write the makefiles by hand?
Because
>automake saves a ton of work in this regard. Writing an automake
script is
>much, much easier than writing an equivalent makefile.

Why use a makefile at all?  A simple invocation of the compiler is
all that is needed.  Doesn't make just make setup more complicated
for blanket compilations like an install?

--Beman