Re: [boost] Re: Why Jam?

From: Karl Nelson (kenelson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-26 12:57:55

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "braden_mcdaniel" <braden_at_[hidden]>
> 
> > > * How can I (or we, the Boost developers in general) help?
> >
> > You could learn the autotools. :-)
> 
> As a build system developer, it would probably be a good idea for me to do
> that eventually. I found the documentation really daunting last time I
> looked, though. Is there an easy way in?

Daunting is barely the word to describe it.  The best way to 
learn the thing is to take a really simple project which is already
using automake and expand it to fit yours.  The documentation is
more of a reference guide for you to look up macros.  It does 
nothing to help the staring user.  (Unless confusing is helping.)

Just to demonstrate (since I have done 3 of these in the last month)
here is a sample of an automake project done of my boost submission.

   http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~kenelson/format_package-0.0.1.tar.gz

It took all of 20 minutes to get working.  It works on cygwin and 
unix derivatives.

Hope it helps.
 
--Karl