Re: Future plans for Autotools

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2021-01-26 at 11:01 -0800, Andy Tai wrote:
> GNU Make integrates with guile.  Maybe such extension can be 
> done using guile for flexibility?

The problem is that hardly any standard distributions build GNU make
with Guile support enabled.  If this was used basically it would end up
requiring anyone who wanted to use automake to build their own version
of GNU make first.

And, we'd have a catch-22 where Guile (if it used automake) would need
a GNU make built with Guile before it could be built...