On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> wrote: > Pippijn wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: >> > If there was a student interested in showing how "easy" it was to use >> > automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to >> > co-mentor and work with them to convert NTP to that sort of operation. >> >> It's mostly trivial. How hard are GSoC projects supposed to be? > > I'll assume you have seen my reply to Ralf. > > From my POV, I have heard folks saying for a long time how "easy" it is > to use automake to produce non-recursive Makefiles. But I haven't seen > this in practice, and on the (few) attempts I have made to figure it out > myself and look for examples, I have not yet been able to find a really > useful solution.
A solution to *what* exactly? Said another way, what *exactly* is the problem with automake+non-recursion that you would want solved? I personally have found that the only obstacle to me is minor -- all sources have to be specified relative to the top level directory, even in a subdir Makefile fragment that gets included in the top. > What I think we'd want is a reasonably well-documented description of > how to use automake to produce a source tree where one can: > > - run "make" from the top-level of the tree and all of the normal things > happen (and all of the normal targets work) > - run "make" from a subdir, which would handle all of the normal targets > for that subdir, and would also automatically handle *all* of the > dependencies needed for the specified targets in that subdir (like > prerequisite libraries).
