RE: RFE: Generating a stub Makefile

[Duft Markus]

Hi Mark!

It sure would be some benefit for the *user* of the package. Still as a
maintainer or developer, i really do need to manually configure, since i
*never ever* install any of the development packages in the default
prefix, this would be suicide!

Just what i think of this.... ;o)

Cheers, Markus

Mark Heily <> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 01:06 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Mark Heily wrote:
>>> This seems I would like Autoconf to generate a stub Makefile to
>>> include in the top-level of each tarball. The purpose of this stub
>>> Makefile is to call ./configure
>>> to generate the real Makefile and then re-invoke make(1) using the
>>> real Makefile.
>> 
>> I also like the ability to simply check out a pristine copy of the
>> source and then simply type 'make'.  Fortunately this is quite easy.
>> I have always been fond of Jim's GNUmakefile in Coreutils.
>> 
> 
> Thanks for providing the GNUmakefile info. It seems the consensus on
> this list is to avoid making this kind of improvement to Autoconf. Too
> bad.
> 
> The stub Makefile would be an additional convenience,
> and would not prevent you from running './configure' manually
> and adding whatever flags you want.
> 
> I develop several projects that use Autoconf/Automake
> and am constantly copying the source tarballs around to various
> machines to test the build process.
> 
> It occurred to me that the process of configuring the package and
> building the package could be consolidated into a single command,
> so instead of typing:
> 
>         ./configure && make
> 
> you could just type:
> 
>         make
> 
> ... by creating a very simple and small stub Makefile as I described
> earlier.
> 
> It would be even better to add autoreconf support as you described, so
> that when I check out a copy of a program from CVS or Subversion, I
> can run 'make' instead of running
> 
>       autoreconf -f -i && ./configure && make
> 
> This way, you only run autoreconf or the configure script when it is
> necessary to configure the build in a special way. The rest of the
> time, it is completely automatic.
> 
> 
> "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
>    -- Albert Einstein
> 
> 
> 
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