Jordan Crouse wrote:
But heres the thing - "that stuff" has already figured out some of the icker bits of trying to find libraries and other such things - and when other people come along to try to adapt this code in their build systems they will appreciate breakage in a common location rather then you introducing new but slightly familiar breakage that they then need to understand.
In practice I don't think we have to consider very many icky bits. flashrom has been using even simpler logic than in that configure script for about three years already and a lot of the time it works well. (r2117)
Things may get more complex as the dependencies stack up, but for the number and type of dependencies we'll have for both msrtool and flashrom I think we can continue to roll our own, and get away without autotools.
//Peter