RE: Tired of [auto]make.

[Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de>]

korbb@egcs.cygnus.com writes:
 > Reply-To: ddsinc09@ix.netcom.com
 > *PLEASE* if you press the "Reply" button, edit my address.  Thanks.
 > 
 > 
 > Have I got the tool for you. :-)
 > 
 > Jonas wrote:
 > > > I tried using automake and found it impossible.  It's nice when you
 > > > get a package and say configure ; make and it works, but writing the
 > > > thing yourself is a nightmare.  It's all macros defined heaven knows
 > > > where.
 > > 
 > > How about rewriting Automake in Scheme? :)  This is from the GNU
 > > tasklist;
 > > 
 > >      * Rewrite Automake in Scheme, so it can run in Guile. Right now it
 > >        is written in Perl. There are also other programs, not terribly
 > >        long, which we would also like to have rewritten in Scheme.

Would that involve a perl->scheme translator? Or is backward compatibility
of no use in this case, unlike in the case of elisp<->scheme in the future
Emacs development?
 > 
 > I am inches away from a release of AutoGen that ought to
 > be truely portable to most any POSIX machine with an ANSI-compliant
 > C compiler.  See:
 > 
 >     http://autogen.freeservers.com
 > 
 > The current version has trouble on 64 bit machines and machines
 > where bizarre structures are used to pass varargs (HPUX, Irix,...).
 > 
 > The purpose of AutoGen is to be able to take a simple-syntax
 > description (like, for example, the targets in a directory),
 > and use that information to fill out a template.  Though the
 > released version uses a private RPN syntax, I also have a
 > working prototype that uses Guile's Scheme.  It is my intention
 > to prototype an automake/autoconf scheme in the July or August
 > time frame.  (I need the time to ensure the current release
 > won't start any fires. :)
 > 
Cool.

Klaus Schilling