On poniedziałek 26 sierpień 2002 11:15 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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 > > autogen script is only needed for CVS users, it is used to create the > configure script.
s/distribution/CVS tree/ ;-) Still, the question is whether it wouldn't make sense to move autogen.sh into a Makefile.auto? (no, lazy me hasn't looked at autogen.sh in any detail...) Cheers, Kuba Ober
