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Re: [TCLUG-DEVEL:93] Ptah
On Monday, February 21, 2000, "Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org> wrote:
>
> Well, add variant builds (build for both debugging and
> non-debugging, and/or with a Sparc and i386 target)
Ahh, right, that's a good point. Offhand, I'm not sure how you would do
this as one step with automake. Maybe by doing multiple builds with
builddir != srcdir, with different options for each...all controlled by
an uberscript...? Not very friendly. Ecch. I'm starting to see what
you mean.
> and automatic
> dependency generation for header files, and things start getting really
> hairy. Automake does do auto-dependency generation, but I think it does
> this as a seperate step from 'make', and it requires a compiler that
> supports -M.
Got me. <shrug> (c: Never bothered to look into it.
> The reason automake give you a non-workaround solution to
> inter-directory dependencies it because it creates a Makefile. This is
> an inherent limitation of make.
Thanks for the clarification. It's nice to know the real reason.
John
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