Does it ever just amaze you how hard it is to simply move C code from one project to another I'm about to try this and project A uses makefiles and project B uses cmake and i'm expecting just the build system step to take forevverrr
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Of course that's a a rare and lucky case, but the general procedure of "figure out what their awful build system intends to do and reproduce it with 10 lines of make" is fairly reliable.
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Yeah, half of the time it seems like all they're doing in a billion lines of autoconf is automatically setting up about three lines of cflags that it takes five minutes to configure manually.
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And "detecting ncurses" - who doesn't have ncurses? Okay, the dev package, but... will this thing build without ncurses, or just shame me for not having it? Can't a linker error do the same thing?
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I don't think I had ncurses on old os x
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Absolutely. If you're able to support configurations with or without a library, or with one of several alts, configure-time test makes sense. Otherwise little value over link failure.
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