Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> Ahh, thanks.  Well that surely destroys this idea.
>
> But begs for another, config.guess related question:
> Its output being this unstable means:  If you want to
> make good use of config.guess, you better be tracking it
> constantly.  Ok, I knew this method would be useful to
> but a few packages (most notably libtool[1]), but this
> is a strong reassurance.
>
> Are there auxiliary scripts other than config.{sub,guess}
> which expose complexity rather than hiding it?  Which?

These two are the main culprits.  Usually when used in conjunction
with libtool.  :-)

On the flipside, the config.guess output which is in flux is usually
related to new versions of systems that few people have even heard
about.

Bob
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