Gunnar Ritter <gunnarr at acm.org> wrote:
> David Korn <dgk at research.att.com> wrote:
>
> > > That's all nice, but there remains the fact that it is very
> > > difficult to understand for outsiders (contrasting to plain
> > > makefiles). This is what significantly raises the maintenance
> > > burden, in particular if the advantages are not actually
> > > needed for a certain task.
> > Thats nonsense. Who really understands the GNU Makefiles? They
> > are mostly generated and look like an intermediate language
> > not a specification on how to build.
>
> No doubt, but I was simply not talking about autotools output.
> I was talking about plain makefiles, such as those used in
> OpenSolaris, or in my own projects.
OpenSolaris does not use "plain" makefiles but includes sets of
object oriented rules as done with my makefile system. But my makefile
system works on more than one platform.
J?rg
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