>>>>> "Nathanael" == Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ moved to the automake list ] Nathanael> On the other hand, the better I understand Automake, the Nathanael> more I HATE it. Over 1 million now served. I found your message pretty irritating, since it is just a bunch of assertions without any real supporting evidence. Please help us make tools better; random "automake sucks" flamage is pretty useless. Nathanael> It makes it waaay easier to generate nasty, stupid Nathanael> dependency problems. Can you explain this comment? Nathanael> It does a poor job of getting dependencies right And this one? I think automake does a very good job here. We've spent a lot of time on dependency tracking. Nathanael> I don't see an easy way of fixing most of the problems even Nathanael> with a complete rewrite (although some of the functionality Nathanael> could be better implemented with a few command-line Nathanael> enhancements to 'make'... but that's a complicated other Nathanael> story). The whole point is not to require changes to make. If we could do that, then we could eliminate a lot of automake. Or just use a better tool to start with. Nathanael> Most of the really irritating repetitive stuff which Nathanael> automake abstracts away can be better done using pattern Nathanael> rules What do you mean? Do you mean GNU-make-specific % rules? We can't use those. Nathanael> An example of this is the way *Automake* uses libtool. Not Nathanael> libtool itself, but the way automake uses it. Please explain. Tom
