Re: Converters available, e.g. SCons -> aap?

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 11:24, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Aschwin Marsman wrote:
> > Are there converters that take e.g. take a Makefile or a SCons
> > file and convert that to the aap recipe format?
> > They don't have to be perfect (would be nice although) but
> > if the easy part can be done automagically that will help a lot.
>
> Not that I know of.  An Aap recipe resembles a Makefile enough that you
> can easily convert a Makefile to a recipe.  Dependencies can be used
> unmodified, so that the output of "gcc -MM" can be used.

At some point, for the kde module, I had some AAP magic that read in a 
Makefile.am and did (mostly) the right thing by examining which variables had 
been set by the Makefile.am . It didn't handle conditionals or anything fancy 
though. So it's possible, but somewhat impractical.




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