Re: autotools and ada

>>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey R Carter <spam@xxxxxxxx> writes:

Jeffrey> Ottavio Campana wrote:
>> I'm trying to develop a program using autotools to manage the
>> makefiles.

Jeffrey> My experience, in over 21 yrs using Ada, is that make files are
Jeffrey> unnecessary. I have never used them.

.... and complicated.

Most of the time maintaining Heimdal for Debian seems to be spent on
redoing the autotools stuff to do adhere to Debian requirements. This
would be OK if upstream applied the same (or similar) changes,
frequently this doesn't happen. :-(

Argghhh!

This isn't that I dislike autotools, but I think it is important to
ensure the system remains, flexible, easy to understand, and easy to
debug.

I also have a suspicion if you tried to design something like
autotools from scratch without the requirement it work with old
standards (Makefiles, m4, etc) you would end up with something that
makes meeting these goals a lot simpler.

Might be an interesting project in fact, how about

(autoconf+automake+libtool functionality)+(Ada syntax)+(strict Ada checking)
--> new make tool for any language and portable to any environment?

Obviously I haven't given this much consideration. Yet.
--
Brian May <bam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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