[BRLTTY] automake?

[Christopher Brannon]

Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> writes:

> probably not, unless, of course, you can convince the above-mentioned person as 
> to why it'd be worth the endeavour. It's entirely possible that he's just 
> stubbornly clinging to his old ways. There was a time, after all, when he 
> thought he didn't like autoconf. What do you see as the reasons that such a 
> transformation should be undertaken?

Hi Dave,
First, I'll say that I'm not the best autotools advocate in the world.
After all, I'm the guy who goes around telling people that a configure
script is a wonderful place to put a trojan.  It's 10000+ lines of
auto-generated shell script that nobody ever reads.  Turns out that
someone actually did it, long before I thought of it.  For instance,
see here: <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-30.html>.

Anyway, the brltty package on Gentoo has a few open bugs.  The build
system doesn't respect LDFLAGS, and the package cannot be built with
parallel make.  Converting to automake should get rid of both issues.
I'll do what I can to fix them within the current structure, instead.

-- Chris