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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: Future plans for Autotools |
Date: | Mon, 25 Jan 2021 16:05:34 -0600 (CST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.20 (GSO 67 2015-01-07) |
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, John Calcote wrote:
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.
Even more importantly, you already wrote those two lines of Automake code! :-)
The Makefile.am format is a sort of "contract" which is assumed by Automake users.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt
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