Marko Kreen <mark...@gmail.com> writes: > IMHO, building via "portable makefiles" is bad idea. For quite simple > reason - user rules. Yes, you can create some default targets that are > generated for user, portably. But as soon as user needs to write own > rules or even write logic in makefile, then what?
It depends. automake passes through user rules, but automake takes care of 99% of the really hairy stuff which might ordinarily tempt one to use non-portable constructs. My experience adding custom make rules to Makefile.am (which AFAICT, mostly just passes them through) is that I typically don't need to use obscure features, mostly it's just bog-standard make rules with some shell-scripting in the build recipe. -miles -- We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo
