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Sincere question - why not use autotools? It's a lot easier writing a Makefile.am declaring the parts of the project and having platform specific stuff handled
by sebcat 10y ago
Sincere question - why not use autotools? It's a lot easier writing a Makefile.am declaring the parts of the project and having platform specific stuff handled by autoconf.
I find autotools very complex and bloated, but it tends to make builds for different platforms, cross compilation, dependency checking and other tasks easy for me. It's often easier than dealing with (g)make directly IMHO.
- Manishearth 10y agoThe answer here is probably "bootstrapped compilers are hard". Rust compiles itself thrice in a typical compile (most devs do fewer stages when hacking), and the makefile needs to distinguish between these, and it gets more complex while cross compiling where your host/target change halfway through the process. So it's quite possible that it's easier to make work in pure make.