Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-26 Thread Roger Leigh
Tom Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Long-time automake readers already know I'm strongly against this sort of structuring. This yields Makefiles which are fragile and undependable. For instance, if you create a temporary file with a source-like name in the source

Re: proposal to fork the build-tools projects

2002-10-26 Thread Tom Lord
Globbing can inadvertently lead to unwanted files being compiled/distributed/deleted/whatever. If you accidentally delete a source file, make won't complain because it won't know. I've played around a bit with an approach to globbing that solves (in some sense) both