Changes in 0.8, state: alpha
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* Full rewrite of Buildtool's own build system, which should
improve maintenance and portability.
* New module bt_install, which provides a portable install program
to not depend on specific system details to do installation.
* New pthread.subr module for bt_config, which provides functions
for automatic detection of a pthreads implementation in the
current system.
* Added checks in bt_config: bt_check_func, to check for generic
functions (not specific to any library), and bt_check_type, to
check for the presence of a generic type.
* Fixes in bt_config's loadable module support. It was severely
broken in the previous version.
Changes in 0.7, state: alpha
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* New check bt_check_bits, which determines appropiate C types for
different sizes.
* New check bt_check_hdr_std, which searches standard headers.
You *must* use this function, as it is now required for further
checks (improves portability).
* Addition of the `siteinfo' target to the main program. It allows
to get specific information about where Buildtool is installed
by third party programs.
* Default name of Makefile's changed to Makefile.bt. This allows
Automake and Buildtool to coexist in the same package and also
avoids running a regular Make tool within a Buildtool-ized
package (which will confuse the user).
* Build fixes under MacOS X (Darwin).
* Minor bug fixes to run cleanly under Win32, using Cygwin.
* Runtime fixes under GNU-based systems (the `getopt' command did
not behave properly).
While I'm here, fix some things: force the package to use TeXinfo 4.0 and
make it use PKG_SYSCONFDIR.
Provided in PR 18042 by Julio Merino.
Buildtool is a set of helper tools designed to make easy to
configure source packages and build them, also making them more
portable.
Buildtool can be tought as the BSD replacement of GNU automake,
autoconf and libtool.
