On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 07:17:49AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> My experience adding custom make rules to Makefile.am (which AFAICT,
> mostly just passes them through) is that I typically don't need to use
> obscure features, mostly it's just bog-standard make rules with some
> shell-scripting in th
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 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 = hello.c beetroot.h rhubarb.h second.c
> END
> $ automake
> $
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 01:08:01PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Actually, my hack was even more generic, and allowed turnkey custom
> definition of arbitrary build modes.
>
> BUILDMODES=prod
>
> was the default.
>
> BUILDMODES=prod debug
>
> was the release+debug build. A rule foreach-ed ove
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 08:54:00AM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 11:26 PM, Marko Kreen wrote:
> >
> > Antimake is my attempt to fix "no good build system" problem -
> > GNU Make library, but instead inventing custom conventions,
> > it i
On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 11:11:56PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Marko Kreen writes:
> >Antimake is my attempt to fix "no good build system" problem -
> >GNU Make library, but instead inventing custom conventions,
> >it implements Automake syntax.
> >
>
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:52:10AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Any sense on how it compares to quagmire?
>From quick look:
1. Quagmire tries to replace autoconf and libtools too,
Antimake is strictly build tool. It leaves system
detection to autoconf and shared libs to libtool.
2. Despite
Antimake is my attempt to fix "no good build system" problem -
GNU Make library, but instead inventing custom conventions,
it implements Automake syntax.
Example:
bin_PROGRAMS = hello
hello_SOURCES = hello.c
include antimake.mk
After writing such Makefile, you can run 'make' immediately,
