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Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- From: Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu at faw dot uni-ulm dot de>
- To: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- Cc: Automake List <automake at gnu dot org>, Lars Hecking <lhecking at nmrc dot ie>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:40:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: automake -vs- huge projects
- Organization: FAW Ulm
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0312170900050.8746-100000@scooby.simplesystems.org>
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 16:01, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Lars Hecking wrote:
> >
> > What about an automake option then to generate Makefiles for GNU make?
>
> How about a new binary 'automake' program that doesn't require an
> external 'make' program at all? It would read the Makefile.am files
> directly ...
How many times did you resort to using "plain make"-rule in Makefile.ams?
So, IMO, for being useful, you'd either have to extend make to accept
the *.am-syntax or to reimplement make.
Ralf