Re: a couple questions about general makefile design principles

[Boris Kolpackov]

"Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

>   second, it seems kind of inflexible -- if you want to build a library, 
> you use precisely the rules in the included makefile for building 
> libraries, and nothing else.  in short, you better want to build a library 
> *exactly* the way the original designer had in mind.

Don't forget that each platform has it's own unique idea of how libraries
should be built. So "the original designer" has an uneasy problem of 
finding generic and practical abstraction for the 'library' concept while 
making sure it can be implemented on all supported platforms.

-boris