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Re: Debugging makefiles



Richard,

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:53:43PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:

[Rewriting a Makefile from scratch]
> I see you have never had to deal with automake.

Automake's Makefiles are generated code and should be treated as such.
If it doesn't work, make a simple testcase that also doesn't work, one
that does work, and compare the two output files from the generator.
Debugging generated code itself is pointless.

   Simon

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