Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 13:04:54 +0000 From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Docs for Berkeley Make? Message-ID: <20050204130454.GA11298@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEDOFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20050203151142.GB96435@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNKEDOFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:20:02AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: : The difference is in the extra candy, which you really don't need or want : to use anyway, unless the project becomes gigantic. : : There's only a handful of open source projects out there which justify : the extra : fancy crapoola in GNU make, in my experience. Unfortunately there's : far too many of them that require gmake simply because the programmer : became enamored of some gimgaw in gmake that had a high coolness factor. : It is really sad to see software that consists of about 10 source files, : that has a makefile that's so non-standard that it requires gmake. Well, I was just using existing BSD makefiles to learn with. But then I got interested in learning libraries. I'm still trying to find a tool or shortcut for handling sonames the best way. But then I found out we are doing a very large project on Linux. I want to make it work on both RH Linux (the target) and FreeBSD (to work on/use at home, of course). I've been learning about the GNU autotools, which seem very finicky, to say the least, but at the same time I don't have to worry about details, like linux-vs-BSD library details And it would be easy to handle, for instance, the difference between the names of serial ports on the 2 platforms. If this were only for BSD, I'd use the makefile framework. But it's not. And it's going to be a large enough project that I don't have the time to constantly fiddle with makefiles and such. And obviously, this also has to work with CVS. I'm the only developer with *any* real Unix experience, and that's very modest experience, to say the least. Any other ideas I should look into? Jonathon -- The beaten path is for the beaten man.
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