On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:35:31AM +0530, Ganesan Rajagopal wrote: > >>>>> "David" == David Lee <T.D.Lee@durham.ac.uk> writes: > > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 05:46:59PM -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: > > > Approach 1: (Andrew Morgan): minimal change. The only Makefile to be > > changed (i.e. renamed into "Makefile.in" and minor editing) is the > > top-level one. All other Makefiles left alone. > > > Approach 2: (Steve Langasek and me): change all Makefiles (rename and > > minor editing). > > What about Approach 3, which is one step more than Approach 2. Use > Automake. If readability is the goal, then I highly recommend using > Automake. Automake makefiles are very small and readable. Oh, my God! automake is the worst possible choice. It makes files absolutely and utterly unmanageable. Automake is a completely different beast, it has declarative rather than procedural language (and very weak, btw). Any attempts to trace anything in automake-generated files turn out to be a great pain, and, frequently, fail. Andrey
