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RE: setup changes to build standalone
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>,"Cygwin-Apps" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 17:17:03 +1000
- Subject: RE: setup changes to build standalone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary R. Van Sickle [mailto:g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:25 PM
> > On a separate but related topic, I'd like to automakeise (is that a
> > word) setup - if there are no objections from the other
> contributors.
>
> No, on the contrary I think that's a great idea. Raw
> Makefile.in's scare the hell out of me. ;-)
Heh. The main things I get from automake is
a) make dist. I _love_ this so much it ain't funny.
b) all the 'stock' rules - so that things like make clean _always_ hit
all subdirs etc etc.
c) consistent VPATH support.
d) multicompiler dependencies (not that I personally use it much, I'm
gcc most everywhere)
e) non-recursive makefiles of a reasonable size.
Makefile.in's aren't good or bad in raw form IMO.
Rob