On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, John Calcote wrote:
To be honest if Automake-generated Makefile.in files only worked
for users with, say, sufficiently modern versions of GNU Make, I'm
not sure there would be any point in using Automake.
I'm not sure I see your point Nick. Why use Automake? Because I'd much
rather write
(and maintain) two lines of automake code than even a single page of GNU
make code.
Even more importantly, you already wrote those two lines of Automake
code! :-)
The Makefile.am format is a sort of "contract" which is assumed by
Automake users.
Bob
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