[DotGNU]autotools

[S11001001]

I have been considering methods with which to support autoconf/automake in DG, 
and here is the model I have come up with:

$ATDIR: an environment variable containing all the possible locations of 
macro/rules files. There are multiple directories, starting with local and 
expanding to system. The compiler installer will try each of these until one works.
autoconf: provide macros with each compiler. These are installed in 
$ATDIR/aclocal.ext, where the ext is the extension used for source code files.
automake: rewrite to support pluggability of make rules for different 
primaries. For example, for CSCC, there would be a $ATDIR/PROGRAMS.cs, 
$ATDIR/SOURCES.cs, etc.

This is just one possibility (and a not-so-good one, at that). I am here just 
to point out this problem of pluggability, particularly with automake.

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