[1401] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: ADDENDUM: Re: build system redesign ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ezra Peisach)
Tue Jul 16 12:53:10 1996
To: tytso@MIT.EDU
Cc: eichin@MIT.EDU, bjaspan@MIT.EDU, qjb@netrail.net, tlyu@MIT.EDU,
krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:14:48 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:52:47 EDT
From: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
This may sound like a silly question, but.... We are already using
wconfig to munge the Makefile.in files..... How hard would it be to modify
wconfig to handle some of the gmakeisms when writing out a new Makefile???
I have not yet looked at what Jay is suggesting, but maybe we can develop
a set of rules that wconfig can deal with and parse....
If you want to look at another system for ideas - I took a quick look at
automake - which is a package for generating Makefile.in's from a hopefuly
simpler input file. I think it looks a little cumbersome (and it requires perl)
but perhaps we can come up with a system which uses simple input files and
has different rules files for different OS's in producing the Makefile.in
which is in use today....
Ezra
