[netperf-talk] Crosscompiling netperf4 & autotools

[Andrew Gallatin]

Rick Jones writes:
 > Andrew Gallatin wrote:
 > > Rick Jones writes:
 > >  > 
 > >  > That I am able to get a non-cross-compile to work with all this stuff is 
 > >  > miracle enough :)
 > > 
 > > It sounds like the auto tools obfuscations are unmaintained.  If so,
 > > can you rip out the auto tools, and have users go back to editing the
 > > Makefile?  It was more reliable :)
 > 
 > And resulted in this constant stream of "When I try to compile I get 
 > <this>" where "<this>" was the text telling them they need to edit the 
 > makefile.
 > 
 > Basically I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't :)
 > 
 > At least with the autotools, when it is working anyway, it does all the 
 > necessary magic and enables the platform-specific source files and such 
 > very nicely.  Back in the days of hand-edits of the makefile for 

Except when your platform isn't recognized (solaris 11), or
when the build barfs because the auto-crud passes bad args
to a build tool (macosx)...

 > example, all the CPU util stuff was a maze of twisty platform specific 
 > #ifdef's in src/netlib.c.  Not very easy to maintain at all.

Can you tell me what the last SVN version was before the
auto-ification?  If I have time (a big if), maybe I'll take a crack at
a simpler auto-ification along the lines we discussed in private email
last week.

Drew