[Asterisk-Dev] Converting the Asterisk code to autoconf

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:33 -0400, telephony at jonjay.com wrote:
> There is one issue that I would like to see improved.  Currently
> the top level Asterisk source contains more than 100 files and
> a single static makefile.  Like so many other quality OSS packages
> this should be placed under GNU's autoconf, and a more hierarchical
> file organization should be in place.

I really don't think it's necessary. I've spent a lot of time porting
and cross-compiling software, and autotools are by far the most common
_cause_ of problems. There's nothing we need from autotools that we
can't achieve with a well-written Makefile.

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dwmw2