On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:10:44AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: > In the long run I'd like to see creating and running a build system to be > as simple as doing something like > > $ echo >Makefile.am <<END > bin_PROGRAMS = hello > hello_SOURCES = hello.c beetroot.h rhubarb.h second.c > END > $ automake > $ make
Alternative way of simplification that is working well for my own projects is "Makefile.am is Makefile": $ wget https://raw.github.com/libusual/antimake/master/antimake.mk $ cat > Makefile <<EOF bin_PROGRAMS = hello hello_SOURCES = hello.c include antimake.mk EOF $ echo 'int main() { return 0; }' > hello.c $ make Note - autoconf integration is available, but optional. So above sequence is really all that is needed to build. Intro: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2012-03/msg00003.html Dedicated repo: https://github.com/libusual/antimake Changes since last year: * C++ support moved out from core to extension. * Experimental MSVC toolchain support (mainly to test core code portability). * Real-life testing via pgbouncer project. Only few minor problems have surfaced. * 'modes' extension, based on idea from Sam Varshavchik: https://github.com/libusual/antimake/blob/master/amext-modes.mk -- marko
