Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi> writes:
> Karl Fogel wrote:
> > Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> writes:
> >> What's "nonstandard" about our system is the fact that you have to
> >> re-run *autogen.sh* (or gen-make.py) when new C files are added.
> >> Nobody suspects that. It's quite weird. It bites people
> >> constantly. If I had a nickel for every dev-list post...!
>
> [...]
>
> > Is there some other solution? Greg, thoughts?
>
> Um. Is there a reason we cannot run gen-make.py when ./configure is
> run - to generate the Makefile.in before Makefile is generated from
> that?
Well, we'd have to account for people who download the bootstrap
tarball and don't have python installed--I don't want to make python a
requirement just to bootstrap.
Aside from that, I think it's a great idea.
-Fitz
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Received on Thu Oct 24 18:54:13 2002