Re: autotools and ada

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

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

Have your programs be installed on totally different target systems?
At various location? Can they easily be cross-compiled? Can compiler
flags be changed easily? Can you switch compilers easily?

All this requires work and this work can be alleviated using
autotools. Makefiles are not for compilation only.

Sam
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