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Ah makefiles. It's 2014 and they still can't handle spaces in directory names. http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712 I'm pretty
by wmil 12y ago
Ah makefiles. It's 2014 and they still can't handle spaces in directory names.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712 http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?712
I'm pretty sure that trying to replace them at this point is sacrilege.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoReplacing Makefiles isn't the hard part. People do it all the time. The hard part is figuring out a migration path away from Autotools. Not even replacing them, that's relatively easy. Integrating them into a world dominated by Autotools, that's difficult.
- geofft 12y agoHm. At first glance this doesn't seem too bad: idiomatic autotools usage involves files that are relatively easy to parse and are also relatively declarative, so making a non-autotools buildsystem that's capable of directly reading configure.ac and Makefile.am files seems doable. Why doesn't this work in practice? Non-idiomatic usage? Custom autoconf scripts?