[1405] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: ADDENDUM: Re: build system redesign ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Jul 16 16:31:53 1996
To: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
Cc: tytso@MIT.EDU, eichin@MIT.EDU, bjaspan@MIT.EDU, qjb@netrail.net,
tlyu@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Date: 16 Jul 1996 15:49:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ezra Peisach's message of Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:52:47 EDT
Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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 took a very brief look at it, and it seemed to have problems in the
area of extensibility. To quote from the manual:
Sometimes @code{automake} isn't enough. Then you just lose.
To be more specific, if automake doesn't do exactly what you need, you
have to write some rules into Makefile.am that will get copied into
Makefile.in, rather than augmenting automake's abilities in some way.
If we can change the library-building rules, for example, without
having to maintain our own modified distribution of automake, we might
be able to make it work.
