Pjotr Prins <[email protected]> skribis: > I am not saying we don't need build tools altogether - I'll still use > make and rake, for example. But we certainly don't need all the > baggage that comes with the current set of 'complex' Makefile > generation tools that are automake and cmake.
The main purpose of Automake is to generate makefiles that (1) contain a lot of non-trivial rules that Make alone does not provide, such as dependency tracking for C source and headers, and (2) to generate the rules specified in the GNU Coding Standards that and users have come to expect: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html I think this remains relevant. Ludo’.
