On 5 sep 2004, at 18:29, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Setup could run gtk-config and stuff it in the files. Then at least we
keep the compiler free from such patchwork, and center the "ugliness" in
the weights file that can be operated on by the user, external tools etc.
Until someone upgrades his libraries and the next compile will be broken again. You have to work with makefiles to get around this. It has nothing to do with ugliness or patchwork on the compiler or language side imo, it's simply the way unix-type systems work and you have to deal with it one way or another.
The C-style building by default is simply more flexible in this regard, because the compiler is dumber and you can do whatever you want in the makefiles. If the compiler largely takes over make's job and you don't want to deviate from this, there is no way but to build in more make-like functionality in the compiler.
Jonas
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