Re: Make2 again

On Monday 30 June 2014, Felix Salfelder wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 03:39:18PM -0400, al davis wrote:
> > What I had in mind is that, at least in concept, autotools
> > and  Cmake are ways to generate the Make2/Make3 files,
> > instead of the whole thing, maintaining modularity,
> > maintaining the ability to fall back on the simpler old
> > system of manual configuration.
> 
> the fall back to manual configuration is what i tried to
> approximate with the (optional) Make2 files.

not really.

What if configuration fails, as it often does.