Greetings, On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Lars Hecking wrote: > > > > What about an automake option then to generate Makefiles for GNU make? > > How about a new binary 'automake' program that doesn't require an > external 'make' program at all? It would read the Makefile.am files > directly ... An excellent idea! Replace `make' with a (Scheme) module for scsh[1]. That way, you get a sane language to write rules in (unlike sh), and your makefiles are platform independent (since scsh has been ported widely). With that done (and it's little more than a learning exercise), it would be conceptually straightforward to rewrite automake as a system sitting on top of it. Not _really_ joking, Norman [1] www.scsh.net -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Gray http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/norman/ Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
