> I'm not too much of an autotool expert, but I'm actually wondering why this > autogen.sh script is still used. Why can't the regular Makefile do the > same, by simply adding the required dependencies? > For example, why not having in the Makefile something like:
Because there's no Makefile in the distribution (it's a file generated by the autotools' generated configure :-), and it would be *bad* to have it distributed just so that autotools could work. Alas, there can be something like Makefile.auto which would be fixed and not auto-generated. Then autogen.sh could just be #!/bin/sh exec make -f Makefile.auto Cheers, Kuba Ober
