On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Will Coleda wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2005, at 5:15 PM, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
> > As in my original proposal, Configure.pl would have to set the order
> > that the steps run in. Longer term it'd be nice to build a dependency
> > tree between the steps and execute them in order of dependencies.
>
> That sounds suspiciously like a Makefile.
Yes, it does. In fact, metaconfig (the tool used to create perl5's
Configure) writes out such a Makefile with the dependencies and then runs
'make' to get all the steps in order. However, note that this Makefile is
for the maintainer's use only. The Configure maintainer runs metaconfig
which sorts all this stuff out, and then ships the finished Configure
file, which has all the steps in the right order.
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
