On 22 November 2011 15:50, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > > It would be useful to enumerate the user-visible benefits if Automake can > depend on using GNU make. Otherwise it is difficult to do a cost/benefit > analysis from the user perspective. Can you and others please brainstorm a > list of benefits (e.g. eliminate external 'compile' and 'depcomp' scripts > with the benefit of better ...)?
Having to avoid GNU make features is a real pain for developers: I miss various string-handling functions and modern suffix rules. Having to compile Makefile.am into a portable Makefile makes debugging problems harder (with two extra places to look: Makefile.in and Makefile). It also complicates automake, as it ends up reimplementing features of GNU Make. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
