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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] Require GNU make
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On 09 Apr 2021 11:18, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Mike> i've just been looking at moving these to automake and not worrying about
> Mike> the quality of the existing Makefiles.  although i'm not ready just yet to
> Mike> move these ports over.
> 
> You may have difficulty with this because automake doesn't handle the
> build/host distinction very well.  Like, there's no canned way AFAIK to
> say that a given executable should be built for one or the other.
> 
> I tend to think it would be simpler to just reimplement the bits you
> need.  Once you can rely on GNU make this kind of thing is pretty easy,
> and less opaque than automake.
> 
> However, don't let me stand in your way.  And, I'm definitely in favor
> of removing all the subdir configure scripts.

you're not wrong, but i don't think it's any worse than plain make.  i'm
not plain make would be better either.  we're using non-recursive make :).

check out igen/local.mk and the testsuite/ ones too.
-mike