-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have to admit, I have never gained a good sense of how to use the gnu Autotools, though I've spent far more time trying than I have with Ant. TrollTech's qmake, OTOH, is very easy to learn. It may simply be the case that Ant hasn't attempted the more complex things Autotools address. I can see some things in Ant which if not addressed soon will lead to the same kinds of obscurity I find in the Autotools. One of the problems I had with Autotools is that the Cygwin install I used had two different versions installed, and I was reading man pages from one version while working with another. /That/ is not a reflection on the difficulty of using Autotools. Nonetheless, when I do look at the documentation, I find myself following references to other documents which are not consistent with the reffering document. KDevelop will generate the files I need for this task, and thus far, I've been able to use the generated results without a problem. However, when I try to understand what all of it means, I am at a loss. Is there a problem brewing with this system? When one script generates another, which generates yet another, it seems there is a potential for the result to become incomprehensible even to the creators of the tools. Does anybody share my concern? STH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQWNFwX61+IL0QsMRAi+HAKCSbJ1qUSd7XB9+f/dHAoK5t1vwfQCcDTg7 UYxEAlpymyIgr1eVT930Svw= =9N51 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----