On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 02:24 +1000, Anthony Shipman wrote: > The idea described in the manual is that a Makefile might be stored in an RCS > or SCCS file and make will update the Makefile if it is out of date wrt the > RCS or SCCS file. But in these days of automake and autoconf and DVCS etc. > does anyone still use this feature?
Maybe not for automatic checkouts, but automatically remade makefiles are still widely used as a way of doing "dynamic makefile programming", especially for those who don't want to figure out how to use $(eval ...). Lots of people still use them for automatic dependency generation (although the "best practice" here doesn't use this method). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.us "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
