On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:49:39AM -0400, NightStrike wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org> wrote: > > Pippijn wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 05:26:58PM -0700, Harlan Stenn wrote: > >> > If there was a student interested in showing how "easy" it was to use > >> > automake to do non-recursive Makefiles for a project, I'd be willing to > >> > co-mentor and work with them to convert NTP to that sort of operation. > >> > >> It's mostly trivial. How hard are GSoC projects supposed to be? > > > > I'll assume you have seen my reply to Ralf. > > > > From my POV, I have heard folks saying for a long time how "easy" it is > > to use automake to produce non-recursive Makefiles. But I haven't seen > > this in practice, and on the (few) attempts I have made to figure it out > > myself and look for examples, I have not yet been able to find a really > > useful solution. > > A solution to *what* exactly? Said another way, what *exactly* is the > problem with automake+non-recursion that you would want solved? > > I personally have found that the only obstacle to me is minor -- all > sources have to be specified relative to the top level directory, even > in a subdir Makefile fragment that gets included in the top.
Surely even this is a solvable problem. Can't automake rewrite the relative paths to be absolute? Obviously this wouldn't necessarily work for some complex custom rules, but in the general case it would be a big bonus. It would also mean that any variables such as foo_SOURCES in a subdirectory could have the absolute path prefixed to all the files on inclusion, which would mean I could convert to using a single top-level Makefile and keep all the separate Makefile.ams in the subdirectories, where it makes sense to have them alongside the code they build. I certainly wouldn't be averse to rewriting any custom rules to gain this. I've wanted something like this for years, in fact. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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