Re: Future plans for Autotools

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> and enable Make to bypass the shell altogether.  Might be worth
> benchmarking on a big program.  Has to be an executable, not a
> library, though; for libraries, the overhead of the libtool script is
> going to dominate.

As a reminder, a former Automake maintainer created a branch/fork of 
Automake and produced a version of Automake which outputs GNU Make 
Makefiles which are optimized to take advantage of GNU Make features. 
I assume that he worked on all of these sort of issues.

I don't recall where the code for this is but I am sure it can be 
found without much effort.

Yes, it might have been as much as 10 years already, but surely not 
that much has changed.

Bob
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