Re: Future plans for Autotools

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, John Calcote wrote:
> > To be honest if Automake-generated Makefile.in files only worked
> > for users with, say, sufficiently modern versions of GNU Make, I'm
> > not sure there would be any point in using Automake.
>
> I'm not sure I see your point Nick. Why use Automake? Because I'd much
> rather write
> (and maintain) two lines of automake code than even a single page of GNU
> make code.

Even more importantly, you already wrote those two lines of Automake 
code! :-)

The Makefile.am format is a sort of "contract" which is assumed by 
Automake users.

Bob
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