Loading FAQ +2 −6 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -116,12 +116,8 @@ A number of Linux and *BSD distributions include OpenSSL. * Why aren't tools like 'autoconf' and 'libtool' used? autoconf is a nice tool, but is unfortunately very Unix-centric. Although one can come up with solution to have ports keep in track, there's also some work needed for that, and can be quite painful at times. If there was a 'autoconf'-like tool that generated perl scripts or something similarly general, it would probably be used in OpenSSL much earlier. autoconf will probably be used in future OpenSSL versions. If it was less Unix-centric, it might have been used much earlier. libtool has repeatadly been reported by some members of the OpenSSL development and others to be a pain to use. So far, those in the Loading Loading
FAQ +2 −6 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -116,12 +116,8 @@ A number of Linux and *BSD distributions include OpenSSL. * Why aren't tools like 'autoconf' and 'libtool' used? autoconf is a nice tool, but is unfortunately very Unix-centric. Although one can come up with solution to have ports keep in track, there's also some work needed for that, and can be quite painful at times. If there was a 'autoconf'-like tool that generated perl scripts or something similarly general, it would probably be used in OpenSSL much earlier. autoconf will probably be used in future OpenSSL versions. If it was less Unix-centric, it might have been used much earlier. libtool has repeatadly been reported by some members of the OpenSSL development and others to be a pain to use. So far, those in the Loading
