Re: smarter makes

[Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>]

>> This reminds me of an old question, one which I'm sure I've
>> been told the answer to many times, and doubtless keep forgetting.
>> If you answer it again, I promise not to forget your answer until 
>> the next time I forget. :-)
>> 
>> Here it is: Why do we have to remember to run Configure?  
>> 
>> Why can't the initial, default makefile notice that this hasn't been
>> done yet and just call it for us?

>With which shell?  And the policy is that no files are overwritten.
>However, nowadays we have out-of-the tree build, so the toplevel
>makefile can create solaris7.0-sparc directory, and run Configure in
>this directory, then call the Makefile in this directory.

I must be missing something.    What do you mean, "which shell"?
Whatever is on the #! line of the Configure script, or, canonically, 
"sh".  Are you saying that you don't know what kind of a script
that Configure is?

--tom

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