Re: automake -vs- huge projects

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 16:01, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Lars Hecking wrote:
> >
> >  What about an automake option then to generate Makefiles for GNU make?
> 
> How about a new binary 'automake' program that doesn't require an
> external 'make' program at all?  It would read the Makefile.am files
> directly ...
How many times did you resort to using "plain make"-rule in Makefile.ams?

So, IMO, for being useful, you'd either have to extend make to accept
the *.am-syntax or to reimplement make.

Ralf