Re: autoconf (was: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [ANNOUNCE] tlator-0.1 initial release)

[MJ Ray]

On 2003-09-18 12:37:20 +0100 wave++ <address@hidden> wrote:
> So far, I've ended up using makepp (http://makepp.sf.net).

What benefits over Make does this give, in practical terms?  In the 
page that they claim describes features in makepp not in make, they 
talk about automatic scanning for include files (which Make can do, if 
they mean files included in the make files), avoiding recursive make 
(which Make can do fairly easily), ways of avoiding timestamps (which 
isn't much of a feature as noted previously), and many other things 
that are either possible with Make, are misfeatures to me (arbitrary 
perl code in the Makefile) or do not obviously give any benefit.

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