>>>>> "Paul" == Paul D Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> If you're willing to require GNU make then I'm quite confidant Paul> you could write automake as nothing more than a suite of GNU Paul> make macros and functions. Yeah. One idea for the post-auto* world is "let's beef up GNU make and use it as the basis for the next-generation system". This approach has the benefits that most build scripts are already written for make and that GNU make already does a lot of what is needed. The competing idea (which seems to have more mindshare -- not necessarily making it more viable) is to write something brand new, typically in your-favorite-scripting-language, thus avoiding the less pleasant aspects of make (syntax, primarily, but also the flat namespace). From time to time I work on a tool following this approach, but there are several of these out there. We did consider just writing our own Makefile.in for libgcj using GNU make features. It seemed easier to try to fix the size problem though. Tom
