"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
