* Guido Draheim wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:55:20PM CET: > By the way, I would find it more interesting to see some > automake-replacement that allows GNU-make extensions and > compiles them down to standard make as far as possible...
Generally, I wouldn't, as I don't like the idea of reimplementing GNU make inside Automake. A couple of ideas might be worth stealing though. > On the other hand some automake-restrictions are really not needed > anymore. (variables with "." and "/" would be nice - along with > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/make/Computed-Names.html > it would easily allow a scheme to define generated compile-flags). Well, with a bit of luck, recursive variable expansion will be part of the next Posix standard. Unfortunately, there are limitations in existing make implementations that affect your (good) ideas, and also I don't think / is portable in variable names. See here for more info: <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.general/12361> (Reminds me of which, I still need to do some portability testing for that ...) Cheers, Ralf
