On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 07:44:40AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius did write: > On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 17:06 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > [ CC to automake because it is involved -- see below ] > > > 3) Fold compile mode completely into Automake snippets/the resulting > > Makefile. I wonder why this has not been done before, at least for the > > default rules (per-target rules could lead to a large blowup of the > > resulting Makefile.in). > Such kind of proposal had popped up several before. > > IIRC, the argument had been that the libtool folks had wanted to "keep > libtool outside of automake" because libtool is/had been supposed to be > a tool independent of the make infrastructure being used (automake is > just one of them).
As someone who is just getting started in the whole GNU autotools world, I think "keeping libtool outside of automake" is one of the things that make it difficult to learn GNU autotools. I like Ralf Wildenhues's option #3 very much. Scott -- Scott Kruger
