On wo, 2009-07-22 at 00:15 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > Do you really consider it a good idea that a4local.m4 is part of the > build system (i.e, stepmake) instead of the package itself? Or is > there a different m4 file used for package specific configuration?
Yes, the package-specific stuff goes in configure.in. > And finally, is the stepmake project itself still alive, possibly used > by another project? Well, I think it's dead. > I've always wondered about the additional > complexity of the makafiles... The idea was to move any/most complexity from a package's makefiles [eg, flower/GNUmakefile, lily/GNUmakefile] to stepmake/; Stepmake maintainers would love makefile complexity, while package maintainers would appreciate simplicity [and speed, think automake]. Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[email protected]> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter Avatar®: http://AvatarAcademy.nl | http://lilypond.org _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
