On Friday 26 April 2002 07:47, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Boulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> Executive summary: this is a KDE problem, not an automake problem. > Richard> The problem is with the am_edit script: it doesn't understand the > Richard> backslash-end-of-line line continuations. > > What does am_edit do? I'm always curious to understand how automake > isn't meeting its users' needs. In other words, why does KDE need to > do anything to automake's output?
Wow. It does a lot nowadays ;) See http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/developer-faq.html#q53 for a high-level description of the tags it handles (i.e. its features) In addition it generates "all-in-one compilation" rules (see --enable-final docu in the same faq), automatically finds icons, docs, subdirs..... and now generates makefile rules for doxygen support in kdelibs. I think that turning this into automake features requests would make quite a long list of requests, but in the long run I suppose it would be great to see automake have some of those features. And http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/*checkout*/kde-common/admin/am_edit?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain for its very badly documented source code ;) -- David FAURE, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/, http://www.koffice.org/ KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today
