"Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> ... The point being that I think creating the
>> replacement parts for autoconf are a lot harder than creating them for
>> the make parts of the system.
> I did - in the wxWidgets case, the existing module had some behaved
> badly in a number of ways and needed rewriting from scratch imho, and
> the PostgreSQL module was non-existent (and pretty quick to write). In
> fairness though, I expect the majority of the autoconf stuff that
> would need replacing would be much easier - simple library/header
> checks are very straightforward.
But of course those are just as straightforward in autoconf. It's
the not-straightforward stuff that's going to be a PITA to translate.
regards, tom lane
