On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 00:36:11 +0200 Hartmut Holzgraefe <hartmut.holzgraefe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > at least with autotools there are alternative documentation sources: > > * the good old "Goats Book" which is also available online, and seems > to have received an update lately: > > https://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html >From 5.1 User-Provided Input Files <https://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_24.html#SEC24> ## Makefile.am -- Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in bin_PROGRAMS = foonly foonly_SOURCES = main.c foo.c foo.h nly.c scanner.l parser.y foonly_LDADD = @LEXLIB@ Why isn't foonly_LDADD explained in the following text? (It took me less than a minute to find that issue.) > > I still refer to my paper copy every once in a while, but by now > that one's so old that a lot of things need to be cross-checked > against current autotools documentation > > * Autotools Mythbusters > > available as ebook and online > > https://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/ ebook link not on page. > > * "Autotools: A Practioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and > Libtool " > > available as paper and 'e' book, but no free edition here ... Which means it does not exist. > > While on the CMake front there's still essentially just "Mastering > CMake" which is just more or less the CMake wiki documentation > exported to paper ... Making CMake look like a gimmick to sell books. > > I've got to deal with both, for Unix-only projects I still prefer > autotools over Cmake any time as the produced Makefiles are just > way more powerful and the configuration option naming is more > meaningful without the -D prefix and with the possibility to > group them by topic where cmake and cmake-gui just provide an > alphabetical list. But our flagship products need to be delivered > for Windows, too, and maintaining two build systems in parallel > didn't really make sense after all, so it's all cmake on that > front now ... What the frack is the -D option? Is it part of CMake or autoconf? (See how easy it is to create nonsense.) -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
