>>>>> "Igor" == Igor Khavkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Igor> make has been around for a while and has grown into quite a
Igor> beast in that time. Certain inherent complexities in make
Igor> have spawned numerous efforts like automake/autoconf, imake,
Igor> share Makeconf files, etc. in order to cope with large and
Igor> complex projects. The Makefiles generated by these tools are
Igor> often quite obscure and even unreadable, which adds much to
Igor> the confusion of user and developers.
FYI: There have been a number of alternatives to Makefiles, for
instance, have a look at ant: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/index.html
Sorry, I am not sure if this is relevant to the subject or not.
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
