php4-ng

For all automake-haters (dislikers :), there is now a chance to escape the slow and not-very-portable automake Makefiles. The system requires only a few changes. The only user-visible changes are that ./configure is faster and that distributions are about 200KB-300KB smaller (saving of ~20% for .tar.gz). The magic behind it is that the Makefile.am-to-Makefile.in step was eliminated, and that all general rules and macros are kept in one place instead of being put into each Makefile. It's not only fast, but it is also portable. I've tested it so far with all three major make implementations (GNU, BSD, SysV) and it has worked flawlessly in each case. Tarballs (.bz2 and .gz) can be downloaded from: <URL:http://va.php.net/~sas/php4-ng/> I'd appreciate it, if you could test it with your usual configuration. Please let me know, if it works for you. TODO: - portable dependencies - making the shared-modules target work -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant