Re: Using headers that install into a subdir

[Jeff Bailey]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:16:50PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> > I just don't want to go through and figure out the best automake way to
> > accommodate this just to find out that you wanted to get rid of it
> > anyway.

> Remind me just why we want automake at all?

> Perhaps it isn't the best thing for large projects like this with very
> complex makefiles.

I've been playing with automake for the Hurd build env. to see whether
it would decrease the complexity.  Automake knowledge is fairly common,
(since gnome, parts of gcc and a number of other major GNU project use
it), and having the Hurd sources use Automake might not only lower the
barrier to entry for folks who want to hack on it, but might also serve
as an example of how a separately packaged translator might be written
using automake and libtool.  The other usual benefits to using automake
also apply (compilation in srcdir or in a builddir work fine, no worries
about tracking changes to the GCS, testsuites are easy to add.)

The Hurd isn't a particularily large or complicated project.  Any decent
library project is larger.  MiG and bootstrap cases are the only things
we have special, and gcc has to deal with the latter.  Our complex
Makefiles generally needn't be.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey