On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 06:50:42PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom> If you do things right, your Makefiles don't need to contain > Tom> specific filenames at all, and you don't need to edit any > Tom> Makefiles as you add, delete, or rename files > > tom> Long-time automake readers already know I'm strongly against this > tom> sort of structuring. > > I agree. Explicit lists of files are the way to go. Everywhere I've > seen globbing used it's been much more hassle than it was worth.
That doesn't mean another autoconfiscation (automakefiscation?) tool wouldn't be useful. Just like autoscan generates a skeleton configure.ac, surely a tool that generates skeleton Makefile.am's would be useful? bernd
