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
