On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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?
Plenty. > So, IMO, for being useful, you'd either have to extend make to accept > the *.am-syntax or to reimplement make. Exactly. The binary 'automake' would be a "plain make" which also understands Automake syntax. If a non-standard tool is required to be on the user's system in order to build software, then it might as well be a tool that does everything. :-) Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen