On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 04:33:47PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> skribis: > > > I am not saying we don't need build tools altogether - I'll still use > > make and rake, for example. But we certainly don't need all the > > baggage that comes with the current set of 'complex' Makefile > > generation tools that are automake and cmake. > > The main purpose of Automake is to generate makefiles that (1) contain a > lot of non-trivial rules that Make alone does not provide, such as > dependency tracking for C source and headers, and (2) to generate the > rules specified in the GNU Coding Standards that and users have come to > expect: > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Standard-Targets.html > > I think this remains relevant.
Sure, but with less targets, thanks to GNU Guix, we could get a much simpler system. Automake and cmake make my head hurt every time I deal with them. Pj. --
