Re: How one could integrate Automake in an IDE ?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Alain" == Alain Magloire <address@hidden> writes:

Alain>  I'm curious on how the autoXXX tools like automake etc .. can
Alain> be integrated nicely part of an IDE.  So far what I've seen
Alain> is not suitable enough ...
Alain>  If you know of a good integration, please send the URL.

The only integration I'm aware of at all is with KDevelop.
I've still never tried that :-(

Alain> I'm looking at the Multipage Editor design, when one tab
Alain> control(page) shows the raw source and the others shows a
Alain> different "view" of the source that can be edited by newbies
Alain> easily, of course with round-trip(i.e. the raw source
Alain> Makefile.am reflects the other views vice-versa).

Yeah, that sounds pretty reasonable, if difficult.

It probably makes sense to concentrate on a simple-but-usable subset
of automake, at least at first.  Otherwise, the problem you'll
encounter is that a Makefile.am is pretty complicated to interpret.
For instance, there are runtime conditionals and configure
substitutions.

Another thing to think about is whether to support having a
Makefile.am in each directory.  It might be simpler just to have a
single master Makefile.am at the top level.


There are a lot of other things a useful auto*/eclipse integration
could do.  We could talk here or on the CDT list, as you (and others)
prefer...

Tom