>>>>> "Timo" == Timo K Suoranta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Timo> Yes I have read those. I still do not understand the reason why Timo> it is so, Wildcards are unreliable, and with automake we try to promote reliable builds. For instance that is why we use full instead of partial dependency information. Also wildcards wouldn't interact well with some automake features. That's because we need to do certain things statically to work around problems and missing features in vendor makes. As an example suppose you want to use per-executable CFLAGS. This feature won't work with wildcards since we must generate an explicit rule for each .o in the executable. With wildcards there is no way to know when we need to regenerate the Makefile (we could do it every time, but first that would be horrible and people would complain, and second it only works with GNU make anyway). HTH, Tom
