Bob Rossi writes:
> Autotools is a great build system. However, after configuring it to
> place as many files as possible in a subdirectory, it still takes up
> 87.5% of my projects root directory.
>
> aclocal.m4
> autom4te.cache
> build
> configure
> configure.ac
> Makefil
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:52:32PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/24/2013 06:44 PM, Andy Tai wrote:
> > The GNU Build system is generally set up such that the Makefile.am,
> > configure.ac, etc. files are in the root directory of a software project.
> > Is there a way to place these files in a su
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I've been working recently on making automake create plain Makefiles
> when it is run, rather than Makefile.in's, and thought I would share
> my progress and thoughts on this.
>
>...
>
> I haven't included the patches I've made so far as the c
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:21:32PM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> antimake and automake-ng (fork of automake targeting GNU make only)
> require GNU make. The changes I've made also introduce a few potential
> incompatibilities with make's other than GNU make, but I'm hopeful
> that these will be minor
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:10:44AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
>> In the long run I'd like to see creating and running a build system to be
>> as simple as doing something like
>>
>> $ echo >Makefile.am <> bin_PROGRAMS = hello
>> hello_SOURCES =
