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Re: Plan for single Makefile
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Plan for single Makefile
- From: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 19:15:19 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>
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Hi, Tom!
> I've spent some time thinking about how we can change Automake to
> support a single large Makefile, but still keep a Makefile.am in each
> directory for maintainability.
I would argue that some people may prefer many Makefiles so that "make"
can be run in every directory, but a single Makefile.am, just like single
configure.in exactly for the same reason, for maintainability.
Anyway, I would like to see Automake 1.5 (or should it be 1.6 to be
similar to linux/gimp/gtk versioning?) released first. Releasing
1.4-based "ultra-stable" versions is not sufficient. Automake has a lot
of useful features that should become available to the users who don't
want to use beta versions.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin