Re: Debugging makefiles

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Ganesan R <rganesan@myrealbox.com> immo vero scripsit:

> Hmm. On the other hand, I found automake useless for trivial projects. I 
> found automake quite useful as the size of the project became
> larger. Granted 1.4 had a lot of bugs and poor documentation, but I had
> mostly learned to work around them :-). Like you said, it depends on your
> needs. 

I found automake/autoconf/libtool combinations to be very
effective in developing small applications targetted for 
building on several operating systems.

My impression is that people have difficulty with autoconf and 
automake when they worked around bugs or deficiencies in previous
versions of autoconf and automake, and they no longer work ...


regards,
	junichi


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