On 23 April 2014 09:03, David Brown <da...@westcontrol.com> wrote: > Again, this is stepping /way/ outside the appropriate bounds of a > built-in pre-processor. > > I don't disagree with the idea of improving upon autotools. But I don't > think adding features to the pre-processor is the way to go.
I completely agree. > The big step would be to support modules in cooperation with LLVM, and > thus eliminate "#include": >From what it seems, this is the only sane thing to do in the compiler. While that's not an option, Make magic looks a lot less dirty than any pre-processor extension. cheers, --renato