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If there's a ./configure step before make, it's not a hand-written Makefile, it's generated by Autotools.
by SAI_Peregrinus 4y ago
If there's a ./configure step before make, it's not a hand-written Makefile, it's generated by Autotools.
- saagarjha 4y agoSome people hand-write their configure scripts, but it’s less common.
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoAnd some people hand-write Makefiles for some simple projects. But those are the output of configure scripts (or CMake files), so hand-writing a configure script (or CMakeLists.txt) isn't hand-writing the resulting Makefile. Writing Makefiles by hand for a single platform and target is easy, I do it for task automation, but it's unusably complex for multi-platform software with multiple build configurations.