> Well make in itself is easy enough, it's autoconf and automake that > make it hard (for me at least). My opinion is that the days of the > Holy Trinity autoconf/automake/make are numbered; have you tried scons > (http://www.scons.org/) or aap (www.aap.org)? These are > next-generation build tools. I see more and more project migrate to > them. Problem is that the gnu rules prescribe autoconf and consorts, > so a lot of projects already use them, and once you have a working > build system, there is little incentive to change. > Anyway, there is a very nice (introductory, don't expect too > much) article on make on developer.gnome.org somewhere. I can't reach > that server right now, but go have a look if you insist on learning > make.
Scons and aap are both new to me. Thanks for mentioning them. I will also take a look around developer.gnome.org to see if I can find something fruitful. ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. The latter perhaps wounds his vanity, but the former wounds his heart, his sympathy, which always says: "Ah, why would you also have as hard a time of it as I have?" -Beyond Good And Evil, F. W. Nietzsche
