Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [ANNOUNCE] tlator-0.1 initial release

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-09-17 16:22:50 +0100 Robert Anderson 
<address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> well).  Only a recent debian version worked.  automake would indeed 
> not
> have led to this problem.

I do not see how automake would have avoided this problem.  It 
supports the avoidance of recursive make, which is good practice to be 
encouraged.  It may construct a Makefile with the same effect as the 
one used now, depending on what the author put in the Makefile.*  If 
the version of make used is buggy, it will still be buggy when reading 
the generated Makefile.  Use of automake is unconnected with the bug 
in make, as far as I can tell.

Maybe the author should rewrite his Makefile to use different macros 
now that the problems have been reported, but that's nothing to do 
with automake use.

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MJR/slef     My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.