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Re: Future plans for Autotools
From: |
John Calcote |
Subject: |
Re: Future plans for Autotools |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Jan 2021 13:27:33 -0700 |
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:26 PM Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> wrote:
> On 2021-01-25, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> > I'm not at all familiar with Automake's internals, but the reason I
> > suggested taking advantage of GNU make extensions was the potential
> > for _complexity_ reduction of the generated Makefile, not performance.
> > For instance, this generated rule from one of my other projects [...]
>
> To be honest if Automake-generated Makefile.in files only worked
> for users with, say, sufficiently modern versions of GNU Make, I'm
> not sure there would be any point in using Automake.
>
I'm not sure I see your point Nick. Why use Automake? Because I'd much
rather write
(and maintain) two lines of automake code than even a single page of GNU
make code.
It sounds like you're a GNU make expert (in fact, I know you are ;) ).
That's great, but
we should not assume everyone wants to be a GNU make expert. Automake
syntax
is almost trivial to learn and use and it generates a significant amount of
detailed
make code that I don't want to have to memorize how to do every time I
create
a new makefile.
John
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, (continued)
Re: Future plans for Autotools, Tom Tromey, 2021/01/21
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, John Calcote, 2021/01/21
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Tom Tromey, 2021/01/24
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Paul Smith, 2021/01/25
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Zack Weinberg, 2021/01/25
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Paul Smith, 2021/01/25
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Nick Bowler, 2021/01/25
- Re: Future plans for Autotools,
John Calcote <=
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Paul Smith, 2021/01/25
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Bob Friesenhahn, 2021/01/25
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Nick Bowler, 2021/01/25
- Re: Future plans for Autotools, Paul Smith, 2021/01/26
Re: Future plans for Autotools, Bob Friesenhahn, 2021/01/25
Re: Future plans for Autotools, David A. Wheeler, 2021/01/25
Re: Future plans for Autotools, Paul Eggert, 2021/01/25
Re: Future plans for Autotools, Bob Friesenhahn, 2021/01/25
Re: Future plans for Autotools, Gavin Smith, 2021/01/25
Re: Future plans for Autotools, Gavin Smith, 2021/01/25