From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Syd Polk <spolk@redhat.com>
To: Jay Kasberger <JLKasberger@lbl.gov>
Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: You people rule.
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 19:49:00 -0000
Message-id: <3A2C666F.F589BB44@redhat.com>
References: <3A2C5A11.387AB842@lbl.gov>
X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00301.html

Jay Kasberger wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I just wanted to let you know - as I'm sure you already do - that
> Source-Navigator is truly an excellent product.  We use it here at
> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for genome project code, and we
> couldn't be happier.  It's very well thought out, powerful, and
> extremely easy to use.
> 
>   If you're interested, here's a feature suggestion:  how about a way to
> export all your different build configurations into a single Makefile,
> with a build target for each configuration?  Just an idea.  Anyway, keep
> up the good work, and best of luck in future endeavors.

This is actually what autoconf/automake/configure is for. Maintaining
different build configs in one Makefile is well nigh impossible.

Instead, we maintain configure.in and all of the various Makefile.am's
and we get all of the magic foo to make it build all over the place.