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Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems
- From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple dot dallas dot tx dot us>
- To: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:36:44 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Calling other external Makefiles and outside Make systems
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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