Hi Mark! It sure would be some benefit for the *user* of the package. Still as a maintainer or developer, i really do need to manually configure, since i *never ever* install any of the development packages in the default prefix, this would be suicide! Just what i think of this.... ;o) Cheers, Markus Mark Heily <> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 01:06 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Mark Heily wrote: >>> This seems I would like Autoconf to generate a stub Makefile to >>> include in the top-level of each tarball. The purpose of this stub >>> Makefile is to call ./configure >>> to generate the real Makefile and then re-invoke make(1) using the >>> real Makefile. >> >> I also like the ability to simply check out a pristine copy of the >> source and then simply type 'make'. Fortunately this is quite easy. >> I have always been fond of Jim's GNUmakefile in Coreutils. >> > > Thanks for providing the GNUmakefile info. It seems the consensus on > this list is to avoid making this kind of improvement to Autoconf. Too > bad. > > The stub Makefile would be an additional convenience, > and would not prevent you from running './configure' manually > and adding whatever flags you want. > > I develop several projects that use Autoconf/Automake > and am constantly copying the source tarballs around to various > machines to test the build process. > > It occurred to me that the process of configuring the package and > building the package could be consolidated into a single command, > so instead of typing: > > ./configure && make > > you could just type: > > make > > ... by creating a very simple and small stub Makefile as I described > earlier. > > It would be even better to add autoreconf support as you described, so > that when I check out a copy of a program from CVS or Subversion, I > can run 'make' instead of running > > autoreconf -f -i && ./configure && make > > This way, you only run autoreconf or the configure script when it is > necessary to configure the build in a special way. The rest of the > time, it is completely automatic. > > > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." > -- Albert Einstein > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf -- 28. Juni 2007 6. BVL Logistiktag Steiermark in der WAMAS City, Friesach bei Graz "Trends in der Logistik ": hoch automatisierte Systeme, mobile Waren- und Leergutverfolgung im Lebensmittelhandel und Generalunternehmerschaft versus Einzelprojekte. Termin: 28. Juni 2007, ab 15.00 Uhr Ort: Salomon Automation, Friesachstra?e 15, 8114 Friesach bei Graz, Osterreich Salomon Automation GmbH - Friesachstrasse 15 - A-8114 Friesach bei Graz Sitz der Gesellschaft: Friesach bei Graz UID-NR:ATU28654300 - Firmenbuchnummer: 49324 K Firmenbuchgericht: Landesgericht fur Zivilrechtssachen Graz _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
