On 2011-11-22 17:38 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > - Reduced build overhead. GNU make can do many things internally that > standard make(1) needs to shell out to do. For example, given a list of > *.cpp names, generate *.o: > > OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.cpp=.o) > > You might think this is a bad example in the context of this discussion, > since Automake can do that conversion itself, since it makes you give it > the list of source files.
Yes, this is a bad example, because the above line is portable make! Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
