Re: Autotools GSoC ideas

2011-03-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 08:52:39AM +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > OK. If you say that a more fuzzy proposal shouldn't cause problems at > this point, I'll follow your lead. In our experience, fuzzy proposals do not work well. Very few students are up to making design decisions -- and cons

Re: dependency system

2002-05-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, > Olaf> (I fail to see any advantage in the new system > > That's too bad. You must not have run into the various bugs with the > old approach. What kind of bugs? And why is the new approach better in this regard? > Olaf> while the clobbering of the make output is a considerable Olaf> > p

dependency system

2002-05-09 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, Is there some way to use the old dependency system with recent versions of Automake? (I fail to see any advantage in the new system, while the clobbering of the make output is a considerable problem -- it's hardly possible to see what is beeing done or to find compiler messages among all the