Hello, On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:33:47PM +0200, Jens Vollinga wrote:
concerning your patch: do you really need autogen?!?
Yes. I don't want to write lots of boilerplate code manually.
Could not m4 do the job?
Let's put it this way: the only thing m4 is good for is obfuscating the code.
While I have no problem installing autogen on every system I use, I know quite some people which would need to go to their admin and explicitly ask for it to be installed
First of all, autogen is not necessary to build GiNaC from tarball. Secondly, installing autogen does not require superuser privileges.
(being then asked nasty question like: why, why now, are you sure, ...)
I wonder how those admins compile GCC :) Best regards, Alexei -- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.