Re: automake -vs- huge projects

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn at glug dot org>]

"Paul D. Smith" <psmith@gnu.org> writes:

   If you're willing to require GNU make then I'm quite confidant you
   could write automake as nothing more than a suite of GNU make macros
   and functions.

   I doubt there would be any need for code changes to GNU make at all.

i think it would be cool if automake supported GNU make specifically,
creating GNUmakefile.in from GNUmakefile.am.  a GNUmakefile.am would
imply some automake option "gnu-make-only", while automake option
"gnu-make" would create both Makefile.in and GNUmakefile.in.  those who
use option "gnu-make" would need to include GNUmakefile in configure.ac
of course.

then, GNU make can DTRT since it prefers GNUmakefile over Makefile, and
other make programs can still function (unless option "gnu-make-only" is
used by the package maintainer in which case that should be mentioned in
README or somesuch).

thi