Re: COmpiling es under Linux 1.2.12

[Paul Haahr <haahr@netcom.com>]

Noah Friedman wrote
> >I want to put out an alpha2 release soon, indended to deal with
> >configuration issues.  The stdenv.h/config.h is just the wrong thing.
> >I'd love to use GNU autoconf, but want to keep es in the public domain
> >and not covered by the GPL.  Not that it really matters.
> 
> As of version 2, there are no restrictions on distribution or use of
> configure scripts, so you can still keep the whole thing public domain.

That's nice to hear;  it makes the decision much easier.

> I started to write a configure script and makefile for es 0.84.
> It's mostly done---what I didn't finish is going through and "cleaning up"
> all the existing #ifdefs in the rest of the source.  But I'll be happy to
> mail you what I have so far.

Thanks.  I'd appreciate that.  I'll finish up the cleanup process and
move things forward to the 0.9 codebase.  Of course, I won't promise
anything soon, but I'd like to send a new release out by the end of
October.

Paul