Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2008 13:39:46 you wrote: > ... > > > > If you're going to rewrite Autotools using GNU Make, why not ask if > > > > another tool would be better, perhaps a tool specially designed for > > > > the job? > > > > > > Go ahead. > > > > The first part of going ahead is to brainstorm and find ideas and > > likely interest... It's too big (as you rightly note) to simply sit > > down and do it by oneself in isolation. > > You are not seriously talking about writing yet another buildsystem? > With autotools, cmake, scons, ant, (b)jam, bitbake, makeng, > etc. there should be enough available. No, I'm talking about improving Autotools to handle some things better than they do now. Passing the high hurdles required to become part of Autotools - especially compatibility - is part of the goal. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
