Re: [Libmesh-devel] Still Really Dislike Automake

2018-09-04 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
For sure, I could care less about BSD make. Just trying to point out the rationale for why this is, and a strategy to work around. Peace. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Still Really Dislike Automake

2018-09-04 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
> On Aug 30, 2018, at 11:09 AM, Roy Stogner wrote: > > Would it be better to try and figure out how to ameliorate the suck in > automake, though? I don't mean to start a flame war but "the rebuild > scripts are too confusing" is a fair criticism and if the list of > other criticisms isn't too

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Still Really Dislike Automake

2018-09-04 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
On Aug 31, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Paul T. Bauman mailto:ptbau...@gmail.com>> wrote: Why is everyone so afraid of actually writing Make? I don't get it. No one in this thread is afraid of writing make. wildcards in GNU make as required by that blob are explicitly not allowed within automake becaus

Re: [Libmesh-devel] Still Really Dislike Automake

2018-09-04 Thread Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
Any chance your modifications could create a build system that can coexist? What I dislike more than automake is having to spend a good chunk of time building the build system on a machine that’s not particularly modern… -Ben > On Aug 30, 2018, at 9:47 AM, Derek Gaston wrote: > > After all