Re: My experiences building GNATS 4.1.0

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:59:11 -0600
Chad Walstrom <[email protected]> wrote:

> By the way, it isn't GNATS 4.10.  You're about 9 releases in the future.
> ;-)
> 
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 10:21:44AM +0200, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> > Another question is why build process so unclean (missing .c files,
> > missing variables, some "magic" explicit rules at the end of makefile,
> > and so on)?
> 
> Historical remnants.
> 
> > IMHO we should cleanup makefiles to be compliant to generic make rules
> > or use GNU atomake framework (but I'm personally are not familiar with
> > GNU build tools). Which way more preferred?
> 
> I would like to see a migration to automake and a single configure.ac

Yep.

> file.  However, I didn't want to hold up rolling out 4.1.0 any longer
> than necessary.  Now that we've reached that milestone, we can look into
> cleaning it up a bit more.

As for me that was correctness decision. Thanks for you work, Chad!

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Best wishes,
Mishka.